Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging of carotid plaque neovascularization is useful for identifying high-risk patients with coronary artery disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1499-1507

  Deyama, Juntaro ^a   Nakamura, Takamitsu ^a   Takishima, Isao ^a   Fujiok, Daisuke ^a   Kawabata, Ken ichi ^a   Obata, Jun ei ^a   Watanabe, Kazuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Yosuke ^a   Saito, Yukio ^a   Mishina, Hideto ^a   Kugiyama, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Coronary artery disease; Plaque neovas cularization

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE KINASE MB; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PERFLUBUTANE; PRAVASTATIN; ROSUVASTATIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84878229992     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-1529     Document Type: Article

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