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  title info:
    title: Assessing and modifying the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque
  name:
    name part: Fuster, Valentin.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 379 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Evolving concepts of atherothrombosis -- Cerebrovascular diseases: pathophysiology and management -- Aortic arch vulnerable plaques: update -- The vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque in peripheral vascular disease -- Panel discussion I. Overview of pathology: clinical correlations of atherosclerosis -- Thermography: a novel approach for identification of plaques at risk of rupture and/or thrombosis -- Intravascular ultrasound and plaque vulnerability: evidence of a systemic disease process -- Intracoronary angioscopy to detect vulnerable plaques: a technique whose time has come? -- Electron beam computed tomography in assessing the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque -- Multirow-detector helical computed tomography -- Panel discussion IIA. Overview of imaging: coronary atherosclerosis -- Imaging of the high-risk plaque using magnetic resonance imaging -- Cardiovascular imaging with optical coherence tomography -- Panel discussion IIB. Overview of imaging: atherosclerotic regions and imaging modalities -- Plaque instability and remodeling: mechanisms and possible misconceptions -- Structural and cellular components of the vulnerable plaque: extracellular matrix -- Structural and cellular components of the vulnerable plaque: inflammatory cells -- Panel discussion III. Structural and cellular components of the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque -- Stress and strain: biomechanical guides for imaging plaque stability -- Endothelium, flow, and atherothrombosis -- Activities that trigger plaque disruption -- Panel discussion IV. Mechanical forces in plaque disruption -- Matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors -- Calcium deposition in vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques: pathophysiologic mechanisms and potential implications in the acute coronary syndromes -- Panel discussion V. Regulation of functional components of the vulnerable plaque.
  note: edited by Valentin Fuster with assistance from William Insull, Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Arteriosclerosis
    topic: diagnosis
  subject:
    topic: Arteriosclerosis
    topic: therapy
  subject:
    topic: Diagnostic Imaging
    topic: methods
  classification: RC692 .A6726 2002
  classification: 616.1/36
  classification: WG 550 A846 2002
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American Heart Association monograph series
  identifier: 0879934859 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2001055631
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    record content source: DNLM/DLC
    record creation date: 011109
    record change date: 20191203130817.0
    record identifier: in00004495272