Can aortic atherosclerotic plaques predict cerebrovascular and cardiac events?
Jean-François Toussaint
Correspondence Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Unit, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20 Rue Leblanc, 75908 Paris, Cedex 15, France
Email jean-francois.toussaint@egp.aphp.fr
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The precise assessment of atherosclerotic burden as a method to predict acute cardiac events is a major goal of cardiovascular research. Old and new imaging techniques are competing to localize, measure and characterize atherosclerotic plaques,1 but until technology reaches this goal, we need to define and improve the surrogate markers of atherosclerosis.
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