عنوان

Handbook of the Vulnerable Plaque.

(Number (ISBN

0203489896

(Number (ISBN

9780203489895

Number

b580222

Title Proper

Handbook of the Vulnerable Plaque.

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ron Waksman MD

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Taylor & Francis, A Martin Dunitz Book

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(433 pages)

Text of Note

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; 1 Definition of the vulnerable plaque; 2 Platelets and the vulnerable plaque; 3 Pathology of the vulnerable plaque; 4 Genetic determinants of the vulnerable plaque; 5 Diagnosing the vulnerable plaque in the cardiac catheterization laboratory; 6 MRI and other non invasive imaging modalities for atherothrombotic plaque; 7 Vulnerable plaque detection paradigms from molecules in peripheral blood; 8 Emerging animal models of the vulnerable plaque; 9 Intravascular thermography for the detection of vulnerable plaque some like it hot; 10 Optical coherence tomography. 11 Diffuse reflectance near infrared spectroscopy as a clinical technique to detect high risk atherosclerotic plaques12 Intravascular ultrasound and tissue characterization; 13 Non invasive visualization of coronary atherosclerosis with multislice computed tomography; 14 Drug therapy for the vulnerable plaque; 15 Photodynamic therapy; 16 Should we treat the vulnerable plaque with drug eluting stents; 17 Volcano Therapeut.

Text of Note

The authors examine what exactly is the vulnerable plaque, how can it be detected, who are likely candidates for vulnerable plaque.

Atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerotic plaque.

Class number

Book number

Ron Waksman MD

PhD Patrick W Serruys MD

Ron Waksman MD

Electronic name

[Book]

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