High-risk atherosclerotic plaques : mechanisms, imaging, models, and therapy /: mechanisms, imaging, models, and therapy. (©2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Levon Michael Khachigian.
• Other Names: Khachigian, Levon
• Contents: Foreword, Levon M. Khachigian; Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Plaque Rupture, Prediman K. Shah; Apoptosis and Plaque Vulnerability, Martin R. Bennett; Animal Models of Vulnerable Plaque, Harry C. Lowe, Levon M. Khachigian, Leonard Kritharides, and Jason L. Johnson; Diagnosis of Vulnerable Plaques in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Johannes A. Schaar, Evelyn Regar, Chourmouzios A. Arampatzis, Cornelis J. Slager, Frank J. Gijsen, Jolanda J. Wentzel, Pim J. de Feyter, A.F.W. van der Steen, and Patrick W. Serruys; Imaging of the High Risk Atherosclerotic Plaque by Intravascular Ultrasound: Focal Assessment of Morphology and Vulnerability or Systemic Assessment of Disease Burden and Activity? Paul Schoenhagen, Richard D. White, and Steven E. Nissen; Optical Coherence Tomography for Detection of Vulnerable Plaque, Fabian Moselewski, Stephan Achenbach, and Ik-Kyung Jang; Magnetic Resonance Imaging of "High Risk" Plaque, Stephen G. Worthley and Juan J. Badimon; Nuclear Imaging of the Vulnerable Plaque: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), John Davies, James Rudd, Tim Fryer, Jonathan Gillard, and Peter Weissberg; Identification of the Vulnerable Plaque: The Role of Thermography, Konstantinos Toutouzas, Sophia Vaina, and Christodoulos Stefanadis; Treatment of Vulnerable Plaque: Current and Future Strategies, Leonard Kritharides, David Brieger, S. Benedict Freedman, and Harry C. Lowe
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.1/36; Atherosclerotic plaque; MEDICAL -- Cardiology; Atherosclerotic plaque; Arteriosclerosis -- diagnosis; Arteriosclerosis -- therapy; Diagnostic Imaging; Heart Diseases -- etiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1420037889; 9781420037883
• Related ISBNs: 0849330289
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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