RT Book, Section
A1 Kobayashi, Yuhei
A1 Fitzgerald, Peter J.
A1 Honda, Yasuhiro
A2 Samady, Habib
A2 Fearon, William F.
A2 Yeung, Alan C.
A2 King III, Spencer B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1147697983
T1 Adjunctive Diagnostic Techniques: Intravascular Ultrasound, Optical Coherence Tomography, and Spectroscopy
T2 Interventional Cardiology, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071820363
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1147697983
RD 2024/04/24
AB The  limitations  inherent  to  angiography  served  as  a  technological  springboard  for  the  development  of  other  devices  in  search  of  better  visualization,  quantification,  and  identification  of  the  coronary  vasculature  and  assessment  of  the  efficacy  of  subsequent  clinical  therapeutics.  Intravascular  ultrasound  (IVUS)  was  invented  and  introduced  to  clinical  practice  in  the  late  1980s  as  an  invasive  intravascular  imaging  device.  As  a  front-runner  in  this  field,  IVUS  has  greatly  contributed  to  the  investigation  of  the  pathophysiology  of  coronary  artery  disease  in  symptomatic  patients  and  to  the  guidance  of  percutaneous  coronary  interventions  (PCI).