Cardiovascular Plaque Rupture

Luis E. P. Rohde and Richard T. Lee
Determinants of Thrombosis After Plaque Rupture
Juan Jose Badimon, Lina Badimon, James H. Chesebro, and Valentin Fuster
The Clinical Manifestations of Plaque Rupture
Michael Berlowitz and David L. Brown
Triggers of Coronary Plaque Rupture Syndromes
Jacqueline Muller-Nordhorn and Stefan N. Willich
Lessons About Plaque Rupture Learned from Angiography
Kevin M. Rankin, Robert J. Applegate, and William C. Little

Techniques to Assess Plaque Vulnerability

Intravascular Ultrasonography to Diagnose Vulnerable Plaque
Allen Jeremias, Peter J. Fitzgerald, and Paul G. Yock
Detection of Plaque Vulnerability with Intravascular Palpography: Principle and Potentials
Chris L. deKorte, E. Ignacio Cespedes, and Anton F. W. van der Steen
Prospects of Laser Spectroscopy to Detect Vulnerable Plaque
Sweder W. E. van de Poll, Jason T. Motz, John R. Kramer, Jr., and Michael S. Feld
Optical Coherence Tomography to Assess Plaque Vulnerability
Neil J. Weissman, James G. Fujimoto, and Mark E. Brezinski
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Vulnerable Plaque
Ergin Atalar
In Vivo Thermography of Coronary Arteries
Christodoulos Stefanadis, Leonidas Diamantopoulos, Eleftherios Tsiamis, Konstantinos Toutouzas, and Pavlos Toutouzas

Prevention of Plaque Rupture

Animal Models of Coronary Artery Disease
Victoria L. M. Herrera, Aram V. Chobanian, and Nelson Ruiz-Opazo
Clinical Trial Considerations in the Development of Inhibitors of Cardiovascular Plaque Rupture
David L. Brown
The Relationship Between Cholesterol, Plaque Rupture, and Plaque Stabilization
Babak A. Vakili and David L. Brown
Antibiotic Therapy to Stabilize Vulnerable Plaque
Enrique P. Gurfinkel and Benjamin Scirica
Plaque Sealing: Mechanical Treatment to Stabilize Plaque
Willibald Maier and Bernhard Meier
The Potential Role of Serine Proteinase Inhibitors for the Prevention of Plaque Rupture
Christian V. Zalai, Piers Nash, Erbin Dai, Li Ying Liu, and Alexandra Lucas
Gene Therapy to Stabilize Atherosclerotic Plaque
Carl M. Fier and Jonathan D. Marmur

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