Sudden cardiac death and myocardial infarction are often caused by rupture of a lipid-rich fibroatheroma. Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) has been used extensively to detect and characterize ...

SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - Results from the Lipid-Rich Plaque (LRP) study demonstrate the correlation between the presence of non-flow-limiting, non-intervened upon, lipid-rich plaques detected ...

While most people can identity a few risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure, unhealthy eating and stress, very few can identify the cause. A major contributing factor is known to ...

SAN DIEGO — Intravascular near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) imaging identified non-flow-limiting, untreated lipid-rich plaque in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infraredx, Inc., a pioneer in intravascular imaging for mapping coronary artery disease, today announced the Makoto™ Intravascular Imaging System, and accompanying ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infraredx, Inc., a pioneer in intravascular imaging for mapping coronary artery disease, today presented a poster at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 67 th ...

A high lipid burden in nonculprit vessel plaque as assessed by catheter-based near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) substantially increases the likelihood of future ischemic events, according to a study ...

Results from the Lipid-Rich Plaque (LRP) study demonstrate the correlation between the presence of non-flow-limiting, non-intervened upon, lipid-rich plaques detected by NIRS-IVUS imaging and the ...

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This is a summary of a preprint research study written by authors from Chiba University, Japan, on Research Square, provided to you by Medscape. This study has not yet been peer reviewed. Visit ...

Multicenter INVICTUS Registry Demonstrates Strong Correlation Between Noninvasive AI-QCT and Invasive IVUS for Coronary Plaque Quantification INVICTUS, a multicenter registry of two cohorts of ...