Prospective validation that vulnerable plaque associated with major adverse outcomes have larger plaque volume, less dense calcium, and more non-calcified plaque by quantitative, three-dimensional measurements using intravascular ultrasound with radiofrequency backscatter analysis: Results from the ATLANTA i study

Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 762-771

  Vazquez Figueroa, Jesus G ^a   Rinehart, Sarah ^b   Qian, Zhen ^b   Joshi, Parag H ^c   Sharma, Abhinav ^b   Lee, James ^b   Anderson, Hunt ^b   Murrieta, Laura ^b   Wilmer, Charles ^b   Carlson, Harold ^b   Taylor, Kenneth ^b   Ballard, William ^b   Karmpaliotis, Dimitri ^b   Kalynych, Anna ^b   Brown III, Charles ^b   Voros, Szilard ^d,e  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PIEDMONT HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Integrated Cardiovascular Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac events; Intravascular ultrasound; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DENSE CALCIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROFATTY VOLUME; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL LUMEN AREA; NECROTIC CORE; PARAMETERS; PERCENTAGE AREA STENOSIS; PERCENTAGE DIAMETER STENOSIS; PLAQUE BURDEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY BACKSCATTER ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VULNERABLE PLAQUE;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GEORGIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECROSIS; ODDS RATIO; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84885642866     PISSN: 19375387     EISSN: 19375395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12265-013-9473-0     Document Type: Article

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