Clinical utility of intravascular imaging and physiology in coronary artery disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-222

  Mintz, Gary S ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

fractional flow reserve; intravascular ultrasound; near infrared spectroscopy; optical coherence tomography; radiofrequency IVUS

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LESION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; STENT THROMBOSIS;

FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY IVUS;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84903983627     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.01.015     Document Type: Review

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