The coronary substrate determines prognosis in acute coronary syndromes: The kaleidoscope has been shaken ... again!

European Heart Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 1357-1360

  Alfonso, Fernando ^a   Virmani, Renu ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^b CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EROSION; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE EROSION; PLAQUE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; THROMBUS; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84930807637     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv059     Document Type: Review

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