MRI plaque imaging reveals high-risk carotid plaques especially in diabetic patients irrespective of the degree of stenosis

BACKGROUND: Plaque imaging based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) represents a new modality for risk assessment in atherosclerosis. It allows classification of carotid plaques in high-risk and low-risk lesion types (I-VIII). Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM 2) represents a known risk factor for ather...

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Autori principali: Esposito, L, Saam, T, Heider, P, Bockelbrink, Angelina, Pelisek, Jaroslav, Sepp, D, Feurer, R, Winkler, C, Liebig, T, Holzer, K, Pauly, O, Sadikovic, S, Hemmer, B, Poppert, H
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2010
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004802/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118504
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-10-27
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