The time has come for clinical cardiovascular trials with plaque characterization as an endpoint

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-161

  Fayad, Zahi A ^a,b   Mani, Venkatesh ^a,b   Fuster, Valentin ^b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLEEDING; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84856136844     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr243     Document Type: Editorial

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