Omnipresent atherosclerotic disease: Time to depart from analysis of individual vascular beds

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 641-653

  Otsuka, Fumiyuki ^a   Fuster, Valentin ^b   Narula, Jagat ^b   Virmani, Renu ^a  

^a CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic atherosclerosis; atherosclerosis; carotid atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease; different vascular beds; intracranial atherosclerosis; pathology; peripheral artery disease

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FAT; LIPID; PROTEOGLYCAN;

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLISM; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THROMBOSIS;

AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84871321044     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.21353     Document Type: Article

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