The vulnerable artery: Early and rapid deposition of lipid in coronary arteries is associated with subsequent development of thin-cap fibroatheromas

EuroIntervention

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2016, Pages e1612-e1618

  Saybolt, Matthew D ^a   Lilly, Scott M ^a   Patel, Dhavalkumar ^a   Hamamdzic, Damir ^a   Llano, Raul ^a   Fenning, Robert S ^a   Madden, Sean ^b   Wilensky, Robert L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INFRAREDX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary artery; Disease; Imaging; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; LIPID CORE BURDEN INDEX; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; YORKSHIRE PIG; ANIMAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

LIPID;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; LIPIDS; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84981731360     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV11I14A312     Document Type: Article

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