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The Role of the Association Between Serum C-Reactive Protein Levels and Coronary Plaque Macrophage Accumulation in Predicting Clinical Events — Results from the CLIMA Registry
The present investigation aims to study the interaction between systemic and intra-plaque inflammation in predicting cardiac events. We investigated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels as well as plaque inflammati...
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Adoption of a new automated optical coherence tomography software to obtain a lipid plaque spread-out plot
Near infrared spectroscopy–Intravascular ultrasound (NIRS-IVUS) provide a fully automated Lipid Core Burden Index (LCBI). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is potentially capable of measuring lipid longitudin...
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Prevalence and quantitative assessment of macrophages in coronary plaques
Although optical coherence tomography (OCT) proved to be able to identify macrophage clusters, there are no available data on the possibility to obtain reproducible measurements of their circumferential extens...
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Open AccessBiological profile of monocyte-derived macrophages in coronary heart disease patients: implications for plaque morphology
The prevalence of a macrophage phenotype in atherosclerotic plaque may drive its progression and/or instability. Macrophages from coronary plaques are not available, and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) are...
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Renal denervation in a patient with unilateral ectopic kidney in the pelvis and refractory hypertension
Ectopic kidney and inherent vascular abnormalities may result in renovascular hypertension. The case we report is peculiar as a left ectopic iliac kidney supplied by a superior and an inferior polar renal arte...
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A new kaolin-based haemostatic bandage compared with manual compression for bleeding control after percutaneous coronary procedures
Bleeding and vascular access site complications are an important cause of morbidity after percutaneous femoral procedures. New haemostatic dressings have been developed to control heavy bleeding. To evaluate t...
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Carotid stenting through the right brachial approach for left internal carotid artery stenosis and bovine aortic arch configuration
Unfavorable complex anatomy or congenital anomalies of supra-aortic vessel take-off may increase carotid artery stenting (CAS) procedural difficulties and complications through the femoral route. We assessed t...