New insights into spotty calcification and plaque rupture in acute coronary syndrome: an optical coherence tomography study

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1915-1922

  Sakaguchi, Mikumo ^a   Hasegawa, Takao ^a   Ehara, Shoichi ^a   Matsumoto, Kenji ^a   Mizutani, Kazuki ^a   Iguchi, Tomokazu ^b   Ishii, Hideshi ^a   Nakagawa, Masashi ^a   Shimada, Kenei ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Bell Land General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Calcification; Optical coherence tomography; Plaque rupture

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CALCIFICATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE RUPTURE; PREDICTION; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THIN CAPPED FIBROATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUPTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84960110987     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-016-0820-3     Document Type: Article

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