Morphological and functional assessment of carotid plaques have similar predictive accuracy for coronary artery disease

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2607-2609

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Benetos, Georgios ^a   Drakopoulou, Maria ^a   Michelongona, Archontoula ^a   Nikolaou, Charalampia ^a   Masoura, Constantina ^a   Stathogiannis, Konstantinos ^a   Aggeli, Constantina ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Siores, Elias ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid arteries; Coronary artery disease; Inflammation; Microwaves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TISSUES; ULTRASOUND;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; MICROWAVES;

AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84884503165     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002462     Document Type: Article

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