Pancoronary plaque vulnerability in patients with acute coronary syndrome and ruptured culprit plaque: A 3-vessel optical coherence tomography study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-67

  Vergallo, Rocco ^a   Ren, Xuefeng ^b   Yonetsu, Taishi ^a   Kato, Koji ^a   Uemura, Shiro ^c   Yu, Bo ^b   Jia, Haibo ^a,b   Abtahian, Farhad ^a   Aguirre, Aaron D ^d   Tian, Jinwei ^a,b   Hu, Sining ^a,b   Soeda, Tsunenari ^a   Lee, Hang ^a   McNulty, Iris ^a   Park, Seung Jung ^e   Jang, Yangsoo ^f   Prasad, Abhiram ^g   Lee, Stephen ^h   Zhang, Shaosong ⁱ   Porto, Italo ^j   Biasucci, Luigi M ^k   Crea, Filippo ^k   Jang, Ik Kyung ^a   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

^f Yonsei University Health System   (South Korea)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

ⁱ LightLab Imaging Inc/St Jude Medical   (United States)

^j IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^k CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THROMBUS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84890130307     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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