Atherosclerosis is a systemic and multifocal disease, which starts early in life, and that usually takes decades before overt disease eventually appears as a consequence of progressive obstruction or abrupt thrombotic occlusion. This silent course makes necessary to develop predictors of disease long before symptomatic lesions develop. Besides several classical risk factors and new emerging humoral risk predictors, imaging may constitute a formidable diagnostic and prognostic tool in order to identify presence, extension, progression (or regression) of disease as well as vulnerability of atherosclerotic lesions. This review summarizes the rapidly growing clinical and research field in imaging atherosclerosis from different perspectives opening important opportunities for timely detection and treatment of atherosclerosis.
Gallino, A., Stuber, M., Crea, F., Falk, E., Corti, R., Lekakis, J., Schwitter, J., Camici, P., Gaemperli, O., Di Valentino, M., Prior, J., Garcia Garcia, H., Vlachopoulos, C., Cosentino, F., Windecker, S., Pedrazzini, G., Conti, R., Mach, F., De Caterina, R., Libby, P., "In vivo" imaging of atherosclerosis, <<ATHEROSCLEROSIS>>, 2012; 224 (1): 25-36. [doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.04.007] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/28278]
"In vivo" imaging of atherosclerosis
Crea, Filippo;
2012
Abstract
Atherosclerosis is a systemic and multifocal disease, which starts early in life, and that usually takes decades before overt disease eventually appears as a consequence of progressive obstruction or abrupt thrombotic occlusion. This silent course makes necessary to develop predictors of disease long before symptomatic lesions develop. Besides several classical risk factors and new emerging humoral risk predictors, imaging may constitute a formidable diagnostic and prognostic tool in order to identify presence, extension, progression (or regression) of disease as well as vulnerability of atherosclerotic lesions. This review summarizes the rapidly growing clinical and research field in imaging atherosclerosis from different perspectives opening important opportunities for timely detection and treatment of atherosclerosis.
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