Expansive arterial remodeling of the carotid arteries and its effect on atherosclerotic plaque composition and vulnerability: an in-vivo black-blood 3T CMR study in symptomatic stroke patients

BACKGROUND: Based on intravascular ultrasound of the coronary arteries expansive arterial remodeling is supposed to be a feature of the vulnerable atheroslerotic plaque. However, till now little is known regarding the clinical impact of expansive remodeling of carotid lesions. Therefore, we sought t...

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Autores principales: Saam, Tobias, Habs, Maximilian, Buchholz, Martin, Schindler, Andreas, Bayer-Karpinska, Anna, Cyran, Clemens C., Yuan, Chun, Reiser, Maximilian, Helck, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26940800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12968-016-0229-2

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