Vasa vasorum restructuring in human atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability: A clinical optical coherence tomography study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 65, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 2469-2477

  Taruya, Akira ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Nishiguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsuo, Yoshiki ^a   Ozaki, Yuichi ^a   Kashiwagi, Manabu ^a   Shiono, Yasutsugu ^a   Orii, Makoto ^a   Yamano, Takashi ^a   Ino, Yasushi ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Kubo, Takashi ^a   Akasaka, Takashi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

optical coherence tomography; plaque progression; plaque rupture; vasa vasorum; vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FIBROATHEROMA; FIBROCALCIFIC PLAQUE; FIBROUS PLAQUE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE RUPTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VASA VASORUM; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 84930728259     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.04.020     Document Type: Article

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