Pathologic intimal thickening: Are we any closer to understand early transitional plaques that lead to symptomatic disease?

Atherosclerosis. 2018 Jul:274:227-229. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.04.033. Epub 2018 May 4.

Authors

Atsushi Sakamoto¹, Sho Torii¹, Hiroyuki Jinnouchi¹, Aloke V Finn², Renu Virmani³, Frank D Kolodgie¹

Affiliations

¹ CVPath Institute, Inc., Gaithersburg, 20878, MD, USA.
² CVPath Institute, Inc., Gaithersburg, 20878, MD, USA; University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ CVPath Institute, Inc., Gaithersburg, 20878, MD, USA. Electronic address: rvirmani@cvpath.org.

PMID: 29801687
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2018.04.033

No abstract available

Keywords: Coronary atherosclerosis; Diffuse intimal thickening; Lipid pool; Macrophage; Pathologic intimal thickening; Smooth muscle cell.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Atherosclerosis*
Humans
Lipids
Myocytes, Smooth Muscle
Tunica Intima*

Substances

Lipids