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Advances in Intravascular Imaging: New Insights into the Vulnerable Plaque from Imaging Studies

The term “vulnerable plaque” denotes the plaque characteristics that are susceptible to coronary thrombosis. Previous post-mortem studies proposed 3 major mechanisms of coronary thrombosis: plaque rupture, plaque erosion, and calcified nodules. Of those, characteristics of rupture-prone plaque have...

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Autores principales: Yonetsu, Taishi, Jang, Ik-Kyung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29171202
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2017.0182