Expansive arterial remodeling of the carotid arteries and its effect on atherosclerotic plaque composition and vulnerability: an in-vivo black-blood 3T CMR study in symptomatic stroke patients

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• 作者：Tobias Saam ; Maximilian Habs…
• 关键词：Plaque ; Remodeling ; Stroke ; CMR ; MRI
• 刊名：Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,734 KB
• 刊物主题：Imaging / Radiology; Angiology; Cardiology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1532-429X
• 卷排序：18

文摘

BackgroundBased on intravascular ultrasound of the coronary arteries expansive arterial remodeling is supposed to be a feature of the vulnerable atheroslerotic plaque. However, till now little is known regarding the clinical impact of expansive remodeling of carotid lesions. Therefore, we sought to evaluate the correlation of expansive arterial remodeling of the carotid arteries with atherosclerotic plaque composition and vulnerability using in-vivo Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR).