Published in Circulation on January 22, 2002
Women and ischemic heart disease: evolving knowledge. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.49
Positive remodeling of the coronary arteries detected by magnetic resonance imaging in an asymptomatic population: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.10
Histopathologic characteristics of atherosclerotic coronary disease and implications of the findings for the invasive and noninvasive detection of vulnerable plaques. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 1.93
Genetic inactivation of IL-1 signaling enhances atherosclerotic plaque instability and reduces outward vessel remodeling in advanced atherosclerosis in mice. J Clin Invest (2011) 1.70
In vivo association between positive coronary artery remodelling and coronary plaque characteristics assessed by intravascular optical coherence tomography. Eur Heart J (2008) 1.69
Arterial calcification and bone physiology: role of the bone-vascular axis. Nat Rev Endocrinol (2012) 1.66
Osteocalcin expression by circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients with coronary atherosclerosis. J Am Coll Cardiol (2008) 1.55
Has our understanding of calcification in human coronary atherosclerosis progressed? Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2014) 1.27
In vivo vibroacoustography of large peripheral arteries. Invest Radiol (2008) 1.24
Increased coronary atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability by coronary computed tomography angiography in HIV-infected men. AIDS (2013) 1.23
Natural history of experimental coronary atherosclerosis and vascular remodeling in relation to endothelial shear stress: a serial, in vivo intravascular ultrasound study. Circulation (2010) 1.19
Coronary artery remodelling is related to plaque composition. Heart (2005) 1.18
Mechanical stress analysis of a rigid inclusion in distensible material: a model of atherosclerotic calcification and plaque vulnerability. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2009) 1.18
BHUx: A Patent Polyherbal Formulation to Prevent Atherosclerosis. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2005) 1.13
Common carotid artery wall thickness and external diameter as predictors of prevalent and incident cardiac events in a large population study. Cardiovasc Ultrasound (2007) 1.12
Women and coronary artery disease. Part I: basic considerations. J Tehran Heart Cent (2011) 1.11
Intramural delivery of rapamycin with alphavbeta3-targeted paramagnetic nanoparticles inhibits stenosis after balloon injury. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2008) 1.07
A robust rabbit model of human atherosclerosis and atherothrombosis. J Lipid Res (2009) 1.06
Common carotid arterial interadventitial distance (diameter) as an indicator of the damaging effects of age and atherosclerosis, a cross-sectional study of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Community Cohort Limited Access Data (ARICLAD), 1987-89. Cardiovasc Ultrasound (2006) 1.05
Pathophysiology of native coronary, vein graft, and in-stent atherosclerosis. Nat Rev Cardiol (2015) 1.01
Monocytes and neutrophils expressing myeloperoxidase occur in fibrous caps and thrombi in unstable coronary plaques. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2009) 1.01
Impact of statin therapy on coronary plaque composition: a systematic review and meta-analysis of virtual histology intravascular ultrasound studies. BMC Med (2015) 1.01
Emergence of Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease: A Woman's Problem and Need for Change in Definition on Angiography. J Am Coll Cardiol (2015) 1.00
Impacts of age on coronary atherosclerosis and vascular response to statin therapy. Heart Vessels (2013) 0.99
Determinants of cerebrovascular remodeling: do large brain arteries accommodate stenosis? Atherosclerosis (2014) 0.97
Morphological characteristics of coronary atherosclerosis in diabetes mellitus. Can J Cardiol (2006) 0.94
Remodeling of carotid arteries detected with MR imaging: atherosclerosis risk in communities carotid MRI study. Radiology (2010) 0.93
Coronary artery calcium and physical function in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2008) 0.92
Pathology of Human Coronary and Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis and Vascular Calcification in Diabetes Mellitus. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2016) 0.92
A pathological perspective on the natural history of cerebral atherosclerosis. Int J Stroke (2015) 0.91
Effect of calcification on the mechanical stability of plaque based on a three-dimensional carotid bifurcation model. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2012) 0.91
Association of coronary plaque composition and arterial remodelling: a virtual histology analysis by intravascular ultrasound. Heart (2006) 0.90
Oxidation, inflammation, and aortic valve calcification peroxide paves an osteogenic path. J Am Coll Cardiol (2008) 0.90
B-mode ultrasound common carotid artery intima-media thickness and external diameter: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with carotid atherosclerosis in a large population sample. Cardiovasc Ultrasound (2008) 0.90
Understanding coronary artery disease: tomographic imaging with intravascular ultrasound. Heart (2002) 0.89
Comparison of pathology of chronic total occlusion with and without coronary artery bypass graft. Eur Heart J (2013) 0.89
Assessment of coronary atherosclerosis by IVUS and IVUS-based imaging modalities: progression and regression studies, tissue composition and beyond. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2011) 0.87
Quantification of vasa vasorum density in multi-slice computed tomographic coronary angiograms: role of computed tomographic image voxel size. J Comput Assist Tomogr (2010) 0.87
Association of plaque composition and vessel remodeling in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis: a comparison with coronary artery disease. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2009) 0.87
Neutrophil adhesion on endothelial cells in a novel asymmetric stenosis model: effect of wall shear stress gradients. Ann Biomed Eng (2010) 0.86
Maladaptive enlargement of the brachial artery in severe obesity is reversed with weight loss. Vasc Med (2010) 0.86
Iterative image reconstruction algorithms in coronary CT angiography improve the detection of lipid-core plaque--a comparison with histology. Eur Radiol (2014) 0.85
Coronary CT angiography in the quantitative assessment of coronary plaques. Biomed Res Int (2014) 0.85
Body mass index and height from infancy to adulthood and carotid intima-media thickness at 60 to 64 years in the 1946 British Birth Cohort Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2014) 0.84
Impact of plaque composition on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with coronary artery occlusive disease. Korean Circ J (2013) 0.83
Bilateral common carotid artery ultrasound for prediction of incident strokes using intima-media thickness and external diameter: an observational study. Cardiovasc Ultrasound (2013) 0.83
Obesity and overweight associated with increased carotid diameter and decreased arterial function in young otherwise healthy men. Am J Hypertens (2013) 0.83
Positive Vascular Remodeling in Culprit Coronary Lesion is Associated With Plaque Composition: An Intravascular Ultrasound-Virtual Histology Study. Korean Circ J (2012) 0.82
The maximum necrotic core area is most often located proximally to the site of most severe narrowing: a virtual histology intravascular ultrasound study. Heart Vessels (2012) 0.82
First case of stenting of a vulnerable plaque in the SECRITT I trial-the dawn of a new era? Nat Rev Cardiol (2009) 0.81
Molecular imaging in atherosclerosis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2010) 0.81
Virtual histology: does it add anything? Heart (2007) 0.80
Increased Sympathetic Renal Innervation in Hemodialysis Patients Is the Anatomical Substrate of Sympathetic Hyperactivity in End-Stage Renal Disease. J Am Heart Assoc (2015) 0.80
Significance of angioscopic morphology for the estimation of macrophage infiltration and vascular physiology. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2004) 0.78
Increased Vascular Permeability Measured With an Albumin-Binding Magnetic Resonance Contrast Agent Is a Surrogate Marker of Rupture-Prone Atherosclerotic Plaque. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging (2016) 0.78
Cholesterol diet withdrawal leads to an initial plaque instability and subsequent regression of accelerated iliac artery atherosclerosis in rabbits. PLoS One (2013) 0.78
Effects of external wrapping and increased blood flow on atrophy of the baboon iliac artery. J Vasc Surg (2008) 0.77
Adventitia measurement in coronary artery: an in vivo intravascular ultrasound study. Heart (2006) 0.77
From the epicardial adipose tissue to vulnerable coronary plaques. World J Cardiol (2013) 0.77
The relationship among extent of lipid-rich plaque, lesion characteristics, and plaque progression/regression in patients with coronary artery disease: a serial near-infrared spectroscopy and intravascular ultrasound study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging (2014) 0.77
Pathology of coronary atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther (2016) 0.76
Biological imaging of atherosclerosis: moving beyond anatomy. J Cardiovasc Transl Res (2013) 0.76
Characterization of intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis using high-resolution MRI study - rationale and design. Brain Behav (2015) 0.76
The vulnerable plaque: the real villain in acute coronary syndromes. Open Cardiovasc Med J (2011) 0.76
Imaging of coronary atherosclerosis in various susceptible groups. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther (2016) 0.75
Imaging of coronary atherosclerosis and identification of the vulnerable plaque. Neth Heart J (2003) 0.75
Microvascular obstruction is caused by atherothrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging (2011) 0.75
Lectin Pathway of Complement Activation Is Associated with Vulnerability of Atherosclerotic Plaques. Front Immunol (2017) 0.75
Detection of atherosclerotic plaques in ApoE-deficient mice using (99m)Tc-duramycin. Nucl Med Biol (2016) 0.75
Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Young Adults with Family History of Coronary Artery Disease. J Clin Diagn Res (2015) 0.75
Characterisation of non-calcified coronary plaque by 16-slice multidetector computed tomography: comparison with histopathological specimens obtained by directional coronary atherectomy. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2011) 0.75
Tanshinone II A stabilizes vulnerable plaques by suppressing RAGE signaling and NF-κB activation in apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice. Mol Med Rep (2016) 0.75
Stable ischemic heart disease in women: current perspectives. Int J Womens Health (2017) 0.75
Computational and experimental assessment of influences of hemodynamic shear stress on carotid plaque. Biomed Eng Online (2017) 0.75
Smaller outer diameter of atherosclerotic middle cerebral artery associated with RNF213 c.14576G>A Variant (rs112735431). Surg Neurol Int (2017) 0.75
High-resolution vessel wall MRI for the evaluation of intracranial atherosclerotic disease. Neuroradiology (2017) 0.75
Short-term tracking of atherosclerosis in operated and unoperated human carotid arteries by high resolution magnetic resonance imaging. World J Surg (2007) 0.75
From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part I. Circulation (2003) 8.61
Pathology of drug-eluting stents in humans: delayed healing and late thrombotic risk. J Am Coll Cardiol (2006) 8.27
Pathology of the vulnerable plaque. J Am Coll Cardiol (2006) 7.79
Computed tomographic angiography characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques subsequently resulting in acute coronary syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 5.70
Localized hypersensitivity and late coronary thrombosis secondary to a sirolimus-eluting stent: should we be cautious? Circulation (2004) 5.44
Intraplaque hemorrhage and progression of coronary atheroma. N Engl J Med (2003) 5.43
Pathological correlates of late drug-eluting stent thrombosis: strut coverage as a marker of endothelialization. Circulation (2007) 5.05
Consensus standards for acquisition, measurement, and reporting of intravascular optical coherence tomography studies: a report from the International Working Group for Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Standardization and Validation. J Am Coll Cardiol (2012) 4.29
Atherosclerotic plaque progression and vulnerability to rupture: angiogenesis as a source of intraplaque hemorrhage. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2005) 4.29
Sudden death in young adults: a 25-year review of autopsies in military recruits. Ann Intern Med (2004) 4.18
From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II. Circulation (2003) 3.94
Protected carotid stenting in high-surgical-risk patients: the ARCHeR results. J Vasc Surg (2006) 3.77
The pathology of neoatherosclerosis in human coronary implants bare-metal and drug-eluting stents. J Am Coll Cardiol (2011) 3.71
Concept of vulnerable/unstable plaque. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2010) 3.45
In vivo diagnosis of plaque erosion and calcified nodule in patients with acute coronary syndrome by intravascular optical coherence tomography. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 3.43
Hypersensitivity cases associated with drug-eluting coronary stents: a review of available cases from the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) project. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 3.38
Low-grade carotid stenosis: looking beyond the lumen with MRI. Stroke (2005) 3.28
Multislice computed tomographic characteristics of coronary lesions in acute coronary syndromes. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 2.97
Vascular responses to drug eluting stents: importance of delayed healing. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2007) 2.95
Drug-eluting stent and coronary thrombosis: biological mechanisms and clinical implications. Circulation (2007) 2.93
Cardiac tumours: an update: Cardiac tumours. Heart (2008) 2.81
Comparison of inflammatory response after implantation of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting stents in porcine coronary arteries. Circulation (2009) 2.67
Delayed arterial healing and increased late stent thrombosis at culprit sites after drug-eluting stent placement for acute myocardial infarction patients: an autopsy study. Circulation (2008) 2.64
A hypothesis for vulnerable plaque rupture due to stress-induced debonding around cellular microcalcifications in thin fibrous caps. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 2.61
Relationship of thrombus healing to underlying plaque morphology in sudden coronary death. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.59
Accuracy of optical coherence tomography in the evaluation of neointimal coverage after stent implantation. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2010) 2.56
Morphologic findings of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in diabetics: a postmortem study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2004) 2.54
Vulnerable plaque: the pathology of unstable coronary lesions. J Interv Cardiol (2002) 2.53
Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 protein expression in the natural progression of human coronary atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2006) 2.51
The role of endomyocardial biopsy in the management of cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology. Circulation (2007) 2.50
Accuracy of in vivo coronary plaque morphology assessment: a validation study of in vivo virtual histology compared with in vitro histopathology. J Am Coll Cardiol (2006) 2.50
Incidence and predictors of drug-eluting stent fracture in human coronary artery a pathologic analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.49
Left ventricular noncompaction: a pathological study of 14 cases. Hum Pathol (2005) 2.48
Correlation of intravascular ultrasound findings with histopathological analysis of thrombus aspirates in patients with very late drug-eluting stent thrombosis. Circulation (2009) 2.47
Endothelial cell recovery between comparator polymer-based drug-eluting stents. J Am Coll Cardiol (2008) 2.45
OCT-based diagnosis and management of STEMI associated with intact fibrous cap. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2013) 2.31
Frequency and distribution of thin-cap fibroatheroma and ruptured plaques in human coronary arteries: a pathologic study. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 2.28
Progressive vascular smooth muscle cell defects in a mouse model of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 2.28
Thin-walled microvessels in human coronary atherosclerotic plaques show incomplete endothelial junctions relevance of compromised structural integrity for intraplaque microvascular leakage. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.26
Role of SCN5A Y1102 polymorphism in sudden cardiac death in blacks. Circulation (2005) 2.25
Histopathology of embolic debris captured during transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Circulation (2013) 2.11
Update on acute coronary syndromes: the pathologists' view. Eur Heart J (2012) 2.10
In-stent neoatherosclerosis: a final common pathway of late stent failure. J Am Coll Cardiol (2012) 2.09
Imaging atherosclerotic plaque inflammation by fluorodeoxyglucose with positron emission tomography: ready for prime time? J Am Coll Cardiol (2010) 2.07
Iatrogenic cardiac papillary fibroelastoma: a study of 12 cases (1990 to 2000). Hum Pathol (2002) 2.06
Histopathology of carotid atherosclerotic disease. Neurosurgery (2006) 2.05
Examination of the in vivo mechanisms of late drug-eluting stent thrombosis: findings from optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound imaging. JACC Cardiovasc Interv (2012) 2.05
Morphological predictors of restenosis after coronary stenting in humans. Circulation (2002) 2.03
Preclinical restenosis models and drug-eluting stents: still important, still much to learn. J Am Coll Cardiol (2004) 2.02
A farnesyltransferase inhibitor prevents both the onset and late progression of cardiovascular disease in a progeria mouse model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.02
Detection of lipid core coronary plaques in autopsy specimens with a novel catheter-based near-infrared spectroscopy system. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2008) 2.01
Virtual histology intravascular ultrasound assessment of carotid artery disease: the Carotid Artery Plaque Virtual Histology Evaluation (CAPITAL) study. J Endovasc Ther (2007) 1.98
Cardiovascular pathology in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria: correlation with the vascular pathology of aging. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2010) 1.96
Histopathologic characteristics of atherosclerotic coronary disease and implications of the findings for the invasive and noninvasive detection of vulnerable plaques. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 1.93
Differential response of delayed healing and persistent inflammation at sites of overlapping sirolimus- or paclitaxel-eluting stents. Circulation (2005) 1.90
Aortitis and ascending aortic aneurysm: description of 52 cases and proposal of a histologic classification. Hum Pathol (2008) 1.89
Correlation between carotid intimal/medial thickness and atherosclerosis: a point of view from pathology. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol (2009) 1.88
Detection of high-risk atherosclerotic plaque: report of the NHLBI Working Group on current status and future directions. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2012) 1.85
Elevated C-reactive protein values and atherosclerosis in sudden coronary death: association with different pathologies. Circulation (2002) 1.85
Characterization of atherosclerosis plaques by measuring both backscattering and attenuation coefficients in optical coherence tomography. J Biomed Opt (2008) 1.83
Anti-CD34 antibodies immobilized on the surface of sirolimus-eluting stents enhance stent endothelialization. JACC Cardiovasc Interv (2010) 1.81
Elimination of neoangiogenesis for plaque stabilization: is there a role for local drug therapy? J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 1.78
Pathological mechanisms of fatal late coronary stent thrombosis in humans. Circulation (2003) 1.76
High levels of systemic myeloperoxidase are associated with coronary plaque erosion in patients with acute coronary syndromes: a clinicopathological study. Circulation (2010) 1.75
Pathology of the thin-cap fibroatheroma: a type of vulnerable plaque. J Interv Cardiol (2003) 1.74
Oral everolimus inhibits in-stent neointimal growth. Circulation (2002) 1.73
Signal transducer and activator of transcription-1 is critical for apoptosis in macrophages subjected to endoplasmic reticulum stress in vitro and in advanced atherosclerotic lesions in vivo. Circulation (2008) 1.72