Handbook of the vulnerable plaque

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 4
1 Definition of the vulnerable plaque......Page 16
2 Platelets and the vulnerable plaque......Page 30
3 Pathology of the vulnerable plaque......Page 48
4 Genetic determinants of the vulnerable plaque......Page 64
5 Diagnosing the vulnerable plaque in the cardiac catheterization laboratory......Page 96
6 MRI and other non invasive imaging modalities for atherothrombotic plaque......Page 112
7 Vulnerable plaque detection paradigms from molecules in peripheral blood......Page 140
8 Emerging animal models of the vulnerable plaque......Page 168
9 Intravascular thermography for the detection of vulnerable plaque some like it hot......Page 188
10 Optical coherence tomography......Page 206
11 Diffuse reflectance near infrared spectroscopy as a clinical technique to detect high risk atherosclerotic plaques......Page 220
12 Intravascular ultrasound and tissue characterization......Page 234
13 Non invasive visualization of coronary atherosclerosis with multislice computed tomography......Page 252
14 Drug therapy for the vulnerable plaque......Page 270
15 Photodynamic therapy......Page 298
16 Should we treat the vulnerable plaque with drug eluting stents......Page 312
17 Volcano Therapeutics......Page 326
18 Radiofrequency tissue characterization and Virtual Histology......Page 342
19 Vulnerable plaque detection using temperature heterogeneity measured with the Imetrx thermocoil guidewire system......Page 358
20 Intravascular thermography using the Thermocore Thermosense  catheter......Page 364
21 LightLab  imaging optical coherence tomography......Page 374
22 Massachusetts General Hospital optical coherence tomography system......Page 384
23 pH as a marker of plaque activity a possible technique for pH based detection of vulnerable plaque......Page 396
24 Intravascular elastography from idea to technique......Page 408
Index......Page 422