European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on May 8, 2007
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm145
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Limitations to the use of virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound to detect vulnerable plaque
Cardiovascular Education Department
Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke's Hospital
University of Missouri-Kansas City
4401 Wornall Road
Kansas City
MO 64111
USA
Cardiovascular Education Department
Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke's Hospital
University of Missouri-Kansas City
4401 Wornall Road
Kansas City
MO 64111
USA
Cardiovascular Education Department
Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke's Hospital
University of Missouri-Kansas City
4401 Wornall Road
Kansas City
MO 64111
USA
Cardiovascular Education Department
Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke's Hospital
University of Missouri-Kansas City
4401 Wornall Road
Kansas City
MO 64111
USA
Tel: +1 816 932 5636
Fax: +1 816 932 5613
E-mail address: smarso@saint-lukes.org
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
Surmely et al.1 used virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS) to characterize coronary plaque in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and stable angina. Although VH-IVUS is a promising plaque-imaging platform, we believe that significant methodological issues must be resolved before