Imaging of inflamed carotid artery atherosclerotic plaques with the use of (99m)Tc-HYNIC-IL-2 scintigraphy in end-stage renal disease patients

PURPOSE: Identification of vulnerable plaques remains crucial for better cardiovascular risk assessment. At least 20% of inflammatory cells within unstable (vulnerable) plaques comprise T lymphocytes, which contain receptors for interleukin-2 (IL-2); those receptors can be identified by scintigraphy...

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Autores principales: Opalinska, Marta, Stompor, Tomasz, Pach, Dorota, Mikolajczak, Renata, Fedak, Danuta, Krzanowski, Marcin, Rakowski, Tomasz, Sowa-Staszczak, Anna, Glowa, Boguslaw, Garnuszek, Piotr, Maurin, Michał, Karczmarczyk, Urszula, Sulowicz, Władysław, Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, Alicja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22237843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-011-2026-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22237843
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-011-2026-3

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