1. Accelerated Coronary Plaque Progression and Endothelial Dysfunction
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Charanjit S. Rihal, Martin Reriani, Guri S Sandhu, Erik Eeckhout, Mario Gössl, Ryan J. Lennon, Myeong Ho Yoon, Amir Lerman, Lilach O. Lerman, Jonella M Tilford, Rajiv Gulati, and Byoung Jwoo Choi
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Systemic disease ,Pathology ,business.industry ,Plaque progression ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Text mining ,Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Coronary plaque ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Endothelial dysfunction ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Artery - Abstract
Although atherosclerosis is a systemic disease, plaque progression and complications occur in a focal, patchy pattern. It remains challenging to predict which segments of a given coronary artery will show accelerated progression of atherosclerosis. Coronary endothelial dysfunction, characterized by
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- 2014