Construction and validation of a plaque discrimination score from the anatomical and histological differences in coronary atherosclerosis: The Liverpool IVUS-V-HEART (Intra Vascular UltraSound-Virtual-Histology Evaluation of Atherosclerosis Requiring Treatment) study

EuroIntervention

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 815-823

  Murray, Scott W ^a,b   Stables, Rodney H ^a   Garcia Garcia, Hector M ^c   Grayson, Antony D ^a   Shaw, Matthew A ^a   Perry, Raphael A ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^c   Palmer, Nicholas D ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

IVUS; Non STEMI; Plaque rupture; Virtual histology

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHENOTYPE; PLAQUE DISCRIMINATION SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUMETRY; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84911489887     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV10I7A141     Document Type: Article

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