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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(16):2023; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn085
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Optical coherence tomography assessment of vulnerable plaque rupture: predilection for the plaque ‘shoulder’

Peter Barlis, Patrick W. Serruys, Arie DeVries and Evelyn Regar*

Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 10 463 5729(E.R.), Fax: +31 10 463 5046(E.R.), E-mail: e.regar@erasmusmc.nl (E.R.)

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Atherosclerosis as a disease entity remains an intensely researched field, given the tendency for considerable morbidity and mortality. This attention has given rise to exciting opportunities in developing tools aimed at early detection and possible targeting of specific therapeutic interventions. One such modality is optical coherence tomography (OCT) . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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