The vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque strategies for diagnosis and management / edited by R. Virmani ... [et al.].

Other author Virmani, Renu.
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Publication InfoMalden, Mass. : Blackwell Futura,
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Contents History of atherosclerosis and vulnerable plaque research / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.] -- The pathology of vulnerable plaque / Renu Virmani ... [et al.] -- The pathology of plaque rupture / Renu Virmani ... [et al.] -- The pathology of plaque erosion / Frank D. Kolodgie ... [et al.] -- Pathogenesis and significance of calcification in coronary atherosclerosis / Allen P. Burke ... [et al.] -- Adventitial and periadventitial fat inflammation is a marker of plaque vulnerability / Silvio Litovsky ... [et al.] -- Murine models of advanced atherosclerosis / Michael E. Rosenfeld & Stephen M. Schwartz -- Triggers for plaque rupture: physical and mechanical stress / Luis E.P. Rohde & Richard T. Lee -- Inflammation and matrix metalloproteinases in atherosclerosis / Zorina S. Galis & Susan M. Lessner -- Apoptosis in atherosclerosis: a trigger for plaque rupture? / Mark M. Kockx, Wim Martinet, & Michiel Knaapen -- Emerging oxidative and lipoprotein plasma biomarkers / Sotirios Tsimikas -- Ultrasonic detection of vulnerable coronary plaques / Mani A. Vannan ... [et al.] -- Intravascular ultrasound-based plaque characterization / D. Geoffrey Vince & Anuja Nair --
Contents Detection and characterization of vulnerable atherothrombic plaques by magnetic resonance imaging / Hee Kwon Song, Ronald L. Wolf & Robert L. Wilensky -- Radionuclide imaging of vulnerable plaques / Johan Verjans & Jagat Narula -- Detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques by near-infrared spectroscopy / Pedro R. Moreno, Barbara Marshik & James E. Muller -- Intravascular thermography for detection of vulnerable plaques / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.] -- Optical coherence tomography / Paul Magnin & Evelyn Regar -- Intravascular palpography for vulnerable plaque assessment / J.A. Schaar ... [et al.] -- Coronary computed tomography for the detection of atherosclerotic plaque burden and coronary angiographic disease severity / Allen J. Taylor & Irwin M. Feuerstein -- New developments in treatment of vulnerable plaques / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.] -- Photodynamic therapy / Ron Waksman & Pauline E. McEwan -- Thermal stabilization of vulnerable plaques / Samuel Ward Casscells ... [et al.] -- Vulnerable plaque: an interventionalist's perspective / Aloke V. Finn, Ronald Waksman & Herman Gold -- Genetic modulation of vulnerable plaques / Chunming Dong & Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont.
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LCCN 2006017667
ISBN9781405158596 (alk. paper)
ISBN140515859X (alk. paper)