Neovaseularization and inflammation of carotid atherosclerotic plaque

摘要：

Background Monocytes and macrophages in the atherosclerotic plaque lead to plaque instability.The aim of the study is to investigate if the plaque neovascularization lead to inflammation.Methods The patients were consecutively enrolled if the carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) was ＞2 mm by duplex ultrasound.The patients then underwent both dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI),contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging (SEUS) and 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET).Target-background ratio (TBR) ≥1.25 or ＜ 1.25 served as the cutoff point of inflammatory or non inflammatory.

作者: GAI Jing-jing LIU Jia-jin ZHANG Xiong-wei LIU Hong-bin LI Juan XIE Lei-xing ZHAO Xi-hai CHENG Liu-quan CHEN Hui-jun WANG Yong YIN Da-yi

作者单位: Department of Cardiology,Department of Radiology,Department of Nuclear,Chinese People”s Liberation A Center for Biomedical Imaging Research,Tsinghua University Surgical Department,University of Washington

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 第11届中国介入心脏病学大会

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 225-225

在线出版日期: 2013-03-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）