Intracoronary imaging of coronary atherosclerosis: Validation for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment

European Heart Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 524-535

  Koskinas, Konstantinos C ^a   Ughi, Giovanni J ^b   Windecker, Stephan ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^b,c   Räber, Lorenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary interventions; Intracoronary imaging; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOPSY; BIORESORBABLE SCAFFOLD; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACORONARY IMAGING; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FORECASTING; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STENT; TRENDS;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84962159042     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv642     Document Type: Review

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