Vulnerable plaques and patients: state-of-the-art

…, NEJ West, A Maehara, A Lerman… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Non-invasive imaging offers the potential as a screening tool to identify plaques with
features of vulnerability, indicating patients at increased cardiovascular risk. Advanced …

Imaging of the vulnerable carotid plaque: role of imaging techniques and a research agenda

I Fabiani, C Palombo, D Caramella, J Nilsson… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
plaques prone to complications—vulnerable plaques—has an important potential for identifying
patients … software (F, showing the region of interest [ROI] for plaque analysis). Panels A …

Pursuit for the detection of vulnerable plaque

IK Jang - European Heart Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
vulnerable plaque has been one of the main focuses in intracoronary plaque imaging research
over the past three … from basic science and clinical studies showing the systemic nature of …

Percutaneous coronary intervention for vulnerable coronary atherosclerotic plaque

GW Stone, A Maehara, ZA Ali, C Held… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
vulnerable plaques. We therefore performed the present pilot randomized trial of PCI treatment
of vulnerable plaques … square test or Fisher exact test. As determined by the Shapiro-Wilk …

[HTML][HTML] Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque features: findings from coronary imaging

O Kurihara, M Takano, Y Miyauchi… - Journal of geriatric …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
vulnerable plaque through mainly OCT studies. We suggested that vulnerable plaque
levels of apoB-48 during a meal tolerance test, was associated with the presence of TCFA. [ 38 ] …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances in the diagnostic imaging of atherosclerosis: insights into the pathophysiology of vulnerable plaque

NV Mushenkova, VI Summerhill, D Zhang… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… (vulnerable) plaques is an ultimate goal in the management of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular
diseases (CVDs). Vulnerable plaques … of high-risk patients and the tailoring of therapy. …

[HTML][HTML] MR imaging of vulnerable carotid plaque

ME Porambo, JK DeMarco - Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… , with initial repeatability studies of plaque morphology from a multi-institution study showing
that … This meta-analysis suggests that vulnerable plaque in patients with symptomatic <50% …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiovascular risk assessment: the foundation of preventive cardiology

ND Wong - American journal of preventive cardiology, 2020 - Elsevier
… MRI hold promise to identify vulnerable plaque. Validation and … for CIMT screening along
with plaque assessment at least in the … Executive summary of the Third report of the national …

Identification of vulnerable plaques and patients by intracoronary near-infrared spectroscopy and ultrasound (PROSPECT II): a prospective natural history study

…, Z Hijazi, L Holmvang, D Ioanes, A Iqbal, A Iversen… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
… A randomised pilot trial of vulnerable plaque treatment (PROSPECT ABSORB) was embedded
within the present study. Patients (n=182) with angiographically non-obstructive lesions …

[HTML][HTML] Association of coronary microvascular endothelial dysfunction with vulnerable plaque characteristics in early coronary atherosclerosis

…, R Gulati, LO Lerman, A Lerman - …, 2020 - eurointervention.pcronline.com
… a recent report showing that coronary microvascular dysfunction is independently associated
with a higher prevalence of optical coherence tomography-defined TCFA in patients with …