ABSTRACT
Despite being an important and rapidly evolving topic, this totally updated second edition, with 10 additional chapters, provides authoritative information for diagnosis and treatment. A comprehensive guide to understanding its many complexities and its role in interventional cardiology, Handbook of the Vulnerable Plaque: * translates the idea
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|23 pages
Platelets and the vulnerable plaque
Juan F Viles-Gonzalez,Valentin Fuster and Juan J Badimon
chapter 6|14 pages
MRI and other non-invasive imaging modalities for atherothrombotic plaque and Zahi A Fayad
Non-invasive imaging of atherosclerosis
chapter 7|4 pages
Vulnerable plaque: detection paradigms from molecules in peripheral blood Timothy D Henry, Cheryl A Conover and Robert S Schwartz
Arturo G Touchard,Antonio Bayes-Genis, John R Lesser, Giuseppe Sangiorgi,
chapter 8|20 pages
Emerging animal models of the vulnerable plaque
Urgent demand for vulnerable plaque animal models
part 9|1 pages
Intravascular thermography for the detection of vulnerable plaque: some like it hot!
chapter 11|14 pages
Diffuse reflectance near-infrared spectroscopy as a clinical technique to detect high-risk atherosclerotic plaques
Pedro R Moreno, Barbara J Marshik and James E Muller
part 13|1 pages
Non-invasive visualization of coronary atherosclerosis with multislice computed tomography
part 16|1 pages
Should we treat the vulnerable plaque with drug eluting stents?
part |1 pages
(Drug eluting) stents for vulnerable plaques
part |2 pages
References
chapter 18|7 pages
Radiofrequency-tissue characterization and Virtual Histology™
D Geoffrey Vince,Anuja Nair, Jon D Klingensmith, Barry D Kuban, M Pauliina Margolis and Vince Burgess
part |2 pages
Clinical studies using the Imetrx thermocoil guidewire
chapter 20|4 pages
Intravascular thermography using the Thermocore Thermosense™ catheter
Stefan Verheye, Glenn van Langenhove, Rob Krams and Patrick W Serruys
part |2 pages
Preclinical data
chapter 22|6 pages
Massachusetts General Hospital optical coherence tomography system
Masamichi Takano, Brett Bouma, Guillermo J Tearney and Ik-Kyung Jang
chapter 23|9 pages
pH as a marker of plaque activity: a possible technique for pH based detection of vulnerable plaque
Tania Khan, Babs Soller, S Ward Casscells, James Willerson and Morteza Naghavi
