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A score to quantify coronary plaque vulnerability in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes: an optical coherence tomography study

BACKGROUND: Patients with type 2 diabetes are at a high risk for acute cardiovascular events, which usually arise from the rupture of a vulnerable coronary lesion characterized by specific morphological plaque features. Thus, the identification of vulnerable plaques is of utmost clinical importance...

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Autores principales: Burgmaier, Mathias, Hellmich, Martin, Marx, Nikolaus, Reith, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4148556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25248966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12933-014-0117-8