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" Handbook of the Vulnerable Plaque. "
Ron Waksman MD
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BL
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760251
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b580222
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Ron Waksman MD
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Handbook of the Vulnerable Plaque.\ Ron Waksman MD
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London : Taylor & Francis, A Martin Dunitz Book, 2004
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(433 pages)
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0203489896
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: 9780203489895
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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.
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The authors examine what exactly is the vulnerable plaque, how can it be detected, who are likely candidates for vulnerable plaque.
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Atherosclerosis.
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Atherosclerotic plaque.
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RC692.R669 2004
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PhD Patrick W Serruys MD
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Ron Waksman MD
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