作者
Morteza Naghavi, Peter Libby, Erling Falk, S Ward Casscells, Silvio Litovsky, John Rumberger, Juan Jose Badimon, Christodoulos Stefanadis, Pedro Moreno, Gerard Pasterkamp, Zahi Fayad, Peter H Stone, Sergio Waxman, Paolo Raggi, Mohammad Madjid, Alireza Zarrabi, Allen Burke, Chun Yuan, Peter J Fitzgerald, David S Siscovick, Chris L De Korte, Masanori Aikawa, KE Juhani Airaksinen, Gerd Assmann, Christoph R Becker, James H Chesebro, Andrew Farb, Zorina S Galis, Chris Jackson, Ik-Kyung Jang, Wolfgang Koenig, Robert A Lodder, Keith March, Jasenka Demirovic, Mohamad Navab, Silvia G Priori, Mark D Rekhter, Raymond Bahr, Scott M Grundy, Roxana Mehran, Antonio Colombo, Eric Boerwinkle, Christie Ballantyne, William Insull Jr, Robert S Schwartz, Robert Vogel, Patrick W Serruys, Goran K Hansson, David P Faxon, Sanjay Kaul, Helmut Drexler, Philip Greenland, James E Muller, Renu Virmani, Paul M Ridker, Douglas P Zipes, Prediman K Shah, James T Willerson
发表日期
2003/10/7
来源
Circulation
卷号
108
期号
14
页码范围
1664-1672
出版商
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
简介
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease results in >19 million deaths annually, and coronary heart disease accounts for the majority of this toll. Despite major advances in treatment of coronary heart disease patients, a large number of victims of the disease who are apparently healthy die suddenly without prior symptoms. Available screening and diagnostic methods are insufficient to identify the victims before the event occurs. The recognition of the role of the vulnerable plaque has opened new avenues of opportunity in the field of cardiovascular medicine. This consensus document concludes the following. (1) Rupture-prone plaques are not the only vulnerable plaques. All types of atherosclerotic plaques with high likelihood of thrombotic complications and rapid progression should be considered as vulnerable plaques. We propose a classification for clinical as well as pathological evaluation of vulnerable plaques …
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