Impact of tissue characteristics on luminal narrowing of mild angiographic coronary stenosis: assessment of integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 750-760

  Iwama, Makoto ^a   Tanaka, Shinichiro ^a,b,c   Noda, Toshiyuki ^a   Segawa, Tomonori ^d   Kawasaki, Masanori ^b   Nishigaki, Kazuhiko ^b   Minagawa, Taro ^c   Watanabe, Sachiro ^a   Minatoguchi, Shinya ^b  

^a GIFU PREFECTURAL GIFU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Gifu Cardiovascular Institution   (Japan)

^d ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Integrated backscatter; Progression; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGINA, STABLE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; ANGINA, STABLE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84936742956     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-013-0428-9     Document Type: Article

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