Insights into echo-attenuated plaques, echolucent plaques, and plaques with spotty calcification: Novel findings from comparisons among intravascular ultrasound, near-infrared spectroscopy, and pathological histology in 2,294 human coronary artery segments

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 2220-2233

  Pu, Jun ^a,b   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Biro, Sinan ^a   Lee, Jin Bae ^a   Sum, Stephen T ^c   Madden, Sean P ^c   Burke, Allen P ^d,e   Zhang, Pei ^d   He, Ben ^b   Goldstein, James A ^f   Stone, Gregg W ^a   Muller, James E ^c   Virmani, Renu ^e   Maehara, Akiko ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c INFRAREDX INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; attenuated plaque; intravascular ultrasound; near infrared spectroscopy; spotty calcification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHO ATTENUATED PLAQUE; ECHOLUCENT PLAQUE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROATHEROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOTTY CALCIFICATION PLAQUE;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATTENUATED PLAQUE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SPOTTY CALCIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84901600657     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.02.576     Document Type: Article

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