Background-Compared to coronary angiography, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) gives
additional information important for the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty …

AIM To visualise the characteristics of ruptured plaques by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
and to correlate plaque characteristics with clinical symptoms to establish a quantitative …

The clinical use of intracoronary ultrasound imaging is growing, serving as a useful adjuvant
to contrast angiography, and providing additional information to assist with catheter‐based …

We investigated whether videodensitometry provides a possibility of objective plaque
characterization by intracoronary ultrasound imaging. Histologically matched 30 MHz …

e55 of an atherosclerotic plaque to result in clinical symptoms. Several research groups
have reported that culprit lesions in acute coronary syndromes are associated with …

The feasibility and applicability of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) of the coronary arteries
were evaluated in 65 patients undergoing 70 coronary interventional procedures …

Objectives. We hypothesized that intravascular ultrasound may identify significant coronary
artery narrowing in the mildly diseases artery of patients with or one-or two-vessel coronary …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate plaque characteristics of culprit and
non-culprit lesions in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients at the index …

A61-year-old man presented with unstable angina (Braun-wald class 2B). Coronary
angiography revealed a mild lesion on the very proximal segment of the left anterior …

Although intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is used for evaluation of plaque volume and lumen
size as well as detection of vessel wall structures after catheter-based interventions …