Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Letter to the Editor
Coronary artery plaque temperature: what do we measure?
Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, 9 Tepeleniou str., 15454, Paleo Psychico, Athens, Greece
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E-mail address: cstefan@cc.uoa.gr
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To the Editor,
An interesting study was recently published in the Journal regarding the effect of blood flow on temperature measurements.1 The authors correlated the temperature measurements in normal porcine coronary arteries with blood flow alterations. These results confirm partly our findings in human coronary arteries in which we demonstrated the `cooling