Use of carotid plaque neovascularization at contrastenhanced US to predict coronary events in patients with coronary artery disease

Radiology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-60

  Zhu, Ying ^a   Deng, You Bin ^a   Liu, Ya Ni ^a   Bi, Xiao Jun ^a   Sun, Jie ^a   Tang, Qiao Ying ^a   Deng, Qi ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID PLAQUE NEOVASCULARIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

EID: 84879931206     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122112     Document Type: Article

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