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Imaging of High-Risk Atherosclerotic Plaques

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Coronary heart disease causes approximately one of seven deaths in the United States. In 2013, more than 370,000 Americans died of coronary heart disease. Each year, 660,000 Americans have a new coronary event, defined as first myocardial infarction or coronary heart disease death; 300,000 Americans have a recurrent attack and 160,000 have silent myocardial infarctions each year [1].

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Amir Ahmadi

  2. CVPath Institute Inc., 19 Firstfield Road, Gaithersburg, MD, 20878, USA

    Kenichi Sakakura, Kazuyuki Yahagi & Renu Virmani

  3. Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Jagat Narula

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Ahmadi, A., Sakakura, K., Yahagi, K., Virmani, R., Narula, J. (2018). Imaging of High-Risk Atherosclerotic Plaques. In: Budoff, M., Achenbach, S., Hecht, H., Narula, J. (eds) Atlas of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7357-1_6

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