Intravascular detection of the vulnerable plaque

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-178

  Suh, William M ^a   Seto, Arnold H ^a   Margey, Ronan J P ^a   Cruz Gonzalez, Ignacio ^b   Jang, Ik Kyung ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Atherosclerosis; Cardiac imaging techniques

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN A;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOSCOPY; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTEGRATED BACKSCATTER INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INTRAVASCULAR PALPOGRAPHY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THERMOGRAPHY; VIRTUAL HISTOLOGY; VIRTUAL HISTOLOGY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RUPTURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79956288487     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.110.958777     Document Type: Article

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