Inflammation goes with the flow: Implications for non-invasive identification of high-risk plaque

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 476-478

  Chatzizisis, Yiannis S ^a   Blankstein, Ron ^a   Libby, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Inflammation; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CAPPING PHENOMENON; CHOLESTEROL DIET; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID STORAGE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84901069910     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.02.019     Document Type: Note

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