Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
Study investigator Number Female (%) Age LM LAD (%) LCX (%) RCA (%) STEMI (%) NSTEMI/USA (%) Thrombolysis (%) Medical (%) PCI (%) CABG (%) Romero-Rodriguez et al. [8] 19…
Early Stent Evaluation
Fig. 9.1 Classification of strut apposition by OCT. (a) Embedded struts (arrows), (b) protruding-covered struts (arrows), (c) protruding-uncovered (arrows) and malapposed struts (arrow heads) Fig. 9.2 Strut level analysis including…
Consensus Documents
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Ik-Kyung Jang (ed.)Cardiovascular OCT Imaging10.1007/978-3-319-10801-8_14 14. Consensus Documents Luca Di Vito1, Valeria Marco1, Mario Albertucci2 and Francesco Prati3 (1) CLI Foundation, Rome, Italy (2) Department of Surgery, San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital and CLI Foundation,…
Cardiac PET Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease
Radiopharmaceutical Targeted biologic process Uptake mechanism Physical half-life FDA-approved 15O-water Myocardial perfusion Freely diffusible 2 min No 13N-ammonia Myocardial perfusion Metabolic trapping 10 min Yes 82Rubidium Myocardial perfusion Na/K ATPase…
PET/CT Imaging of Inflammation and Calcification
Fig. 15.1 Degree of coronary stenosis and subsequent cardiovascular events. In the coronary arteries, less obstructive plaques outnumber severely obstructive plaques. Vascular occlusions and cardiovascular events evolve most frequently from…
Molecular MR Imaging of Atherosclerosis
Fig. 13.1 Schematic overview of plaque development. Starting from the upper left panel (I) with a healthy vessel wall, in counterclockwise direction, each panel shows the major molecular and cellular…
PET/CT Imaging of Inflammation and Calcification in CAVD: Clinical Studies
where SUV is the standardised uptake value over t, t is the time of measurement, c is the radioactivity of the tissue within the region of interest, a is the…
Innovations in Microscopic Imaging of Atherosclerosis and Valvular Disease
Fig. 12.1 Cellular and architectural microscopic morphology of the normal aortic valve (Adapted from Rajamannan et al. [23]) 12.4.3 μOCT Imaging of Aortic Valves Investigation of heart valve calcification has…
Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Endothelial Cell Activation and Damage in Atherosclerosis
Fig. 2.1 Images obtained by mechanical 3-D acquisition. The top panel represents 3-D imaging of a plaque phantom with corresponding x-, y-, and z-plane sample acquisitions at the plaque level….
Pathobiology and Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis
Fig. 1.1 Leukocyte adhesion cascade. Leukocytes are attracted by chemokines and recruited by activated endothelial cells. Leukocyte rolling is mediated by selectins, activation is mediated by chemokines, and arrest is…
