The vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque
Subtitle: strategies for diagnosis and management
By: edited by R. Virmani ... [et al.].
Contributors: Virmani, Renu.
Publisher: Blackwell Futura
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781405158596
Subjects: Atherosclerosis; Heart -- Diseases -- Prevention; Atherosclerosis -- diagnosis; Atherosclerosis -- therapy; Atherosclerosis -- physiopathology; Diagnostic Imaging
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of atherosclerosis and vulnerable plaque research / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.]; title: The pathology of vulnerable plaque / Renu Virmani ... [et al.]; title: The pathology of plaque rupture / Renu Virmani ... [et al.]; title: The pathology of plaque erosion / Frank D. Kolodgie ... [et al.]; title: Pathogenesis and significance of calcification in coronary atherosclerosis / Allen P. Burke ... [et al.]; title: Adventitial and periadventitial fat inflammation is a marker of plaque vulnerability / Silvio Litovsky ... [et al.]; title: Murine models of advanced atherosclerosis / Michael E. Rosenfeld & Stephen M. Schwartz; title: Triggers for plaque rupture: physical and mechanical stress / Luis E.P. Rohde & Richard T. Lee; title: Inflammation and matrix metalloproteinases in atherosclerosis / Zorina S. Galis & Susan M. Lessner; title: Apoptosis in atherosclerosis: a trigger for plaque rupture? / Mark M. Kockx, Wim Martinet, & Michiel Knaapen; title: Emerging oxidative and lipoprotein plasma biomarkers / Sotirios Tsimikas; title: Ultrasonic detection of vulnerable coronary plaques / Mani A. Vannan ... [et al.]; title: Intravascular ultrasound-based plaque characterization / D. Geoffrey Vince & Anuja Nair; title: Detection and characterization of vulnerable atherothrombic plaques by magnetic resonance imaging / Hee Kwon Song, Ronald L. Wolf & Robert L. Wilensky; title: Radionuclide imaging of vulnerable plaques / Johan Verjans & Jagat Narula; title: Detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques by near-infrared spectroscopy / Pedro R. Moreno, Barbara Marshik & James E. Muller; title: Intravascular thermography for detection of vulnerable plaques / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.]; title: Optical coherence tomography / Paul Magnin & Evelyn Regar; title: Intravascular palpography for vulnerable plaque assessment / J.A. Schaar ... [et al.]; title: Coronary computed tomography for the detection of atherosclerotic plaque burden and coronary angiographic disease severity / Allen J. Taylor & Irwin M. Feuerstein; title: New developments in treatment of vulnerable plaques / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.]; title: Photodynamic therapy / Ron Waksman & Pauline E. McEwan; title: Thermal stabilization of vulnerable plaques / Samuel Ward Casscells ... [et al.]; title: Vulnerable plaque: an interventionalist's perspective / Aloke V. Finn, Ronald Waksman & Herman Gold; title: Genetic modulation of vulnerable plaques / Chunming Dong & Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont.