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This review highlights evolving invasive and noninvasive imaging techniques for detecting vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques, with a specific focus on intravascular thermography.
This review highlights evolving invasive and noninvasive techniques, particularly intravascular thermography, for detecting vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques at risk of rupture.
Intravascular thermography for vulnerable plaques remains exploratory; leaves open clinical adoption pending prospective validation.
The vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque is associated with an increased number of acute coronary syndromes. Current techniques such as coronary angiography are unable to detect and prospectively evaluate these lesions. Recently, other techniques, both invasive and noninvasive, are being developed trying to detect the plaque that is at increased risk for rupture eventually resulting in increased thrombosis. This review describes briefly evolving techniques for imaging of vulnerable plaques and describes in detail intravascular thermography.
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Verheye et al. (2002) conducted a review in Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. Intravascular thermography was evaluated. This review highlights evolving invasive and noninvasive imaging techniques for detecting vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques, with a specific focus on intravascular thermography.
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