Age-related differences in virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound findings in patients with coronary artery disease

Abstract

Myocardial infarction, diabetes mellitus, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, but not age, were associated with NC-rich lesions. Clinical presentation, risk factors, and inflammatory status, but not age, are important factors for plaque components.

Factors affecting impairment of blood rheology in obese subjects

“…Recent basic and clinical studies have illustrated that chronic inflammation and oxidative stress in arterial walls contribute to the development of atherosclerosis [17][18][19][20][21]. Furthermore, the results of this study indicate that inflammation and oxidative stress affect impairment of blood rheology in obese subjects.…”

Chlamydia pneumoniae heat shock protein 60 is associated with apoptotic signaling pathway in human atheromatous plaques of coronary artery disease patients

“…C. pneumoniae has been detected frequently in lesions of the aorta, iliac, carotid, and coronary arteries, whereas it has been rarely found in normal arterial tissue [5,6]. Further, clinical presentation, risk factors, and inflammatory status, but not age, are important factors for plaque components [7]. Viable C. pneumoniae has been cultured from a small proportion of atherosclerotic plaques [8].…”

Visualization of coronary plaque in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients using a new 40MHz intravascular ultrasound imaging system

“…iMAP-IVUS not only allows online delineation of tissue components for each category, but also provides realtime 40 MHz high-resolution gray-scale images, which are also fundamentally important. Most previous intra-coronary tissue classification studies employed VH-IVUS, in which gray-scale resolution is only 20 MHz [6,[20][21][22][23]. 2D analysis has the same limitation.…”