A Review of the Clinical Utility of Intravascular Ultrasound and Optical Coherence Tomography in the Assessment and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 68-76

  Matthews, Stephen Daniel ^a   Frishman, William H ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndrome; coronary artery disease; intravascular ultrasound; optical coherence tomography; percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 85009785980     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: 15384683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CRD.0000000000000128     Document Type: Review

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