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Comparison of the inflammatory burden of truly asymptomatic carotid atheroma with atherosclerotic plaques contralateral to symptomatic carotid stenosis: an ultra small superparamagnetic iron oxide enhanced magnetic resonance study
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- Published on: 13 April 2016
- Published on: 13 April 2016Study results show equivalence with FDG PET atherosclerotic plaque imagingShow More
Dear Editor,
I greatly enjoyed reading the paper ePublished on June 19th. The finding that plaque inflammation, detected by USPIO MR imaging, is present even within contralateral asymptomatic plaques is similar to that noted in recent FDG PET studies of atherosclerosis. Using plaque FDG uptake as a marker of inflammation, we (Rudd et al Circulation 2002) found that symptomatic lesions had about 30% more inflammat...
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