Elevated Plaque Temperature in Non-Culprit De Novo Atheromatous Lesions of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes
Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD*,
Maria Drakopoulou, MD,
John Mitropoulos, MD,
Eleftherios Tsiamis, MD,
Sophia Vaina, MD,
Manolis Vavuranakis, MD,
Virginia Markou, MD,
Eirini Bosinakou, MD and
Christodoulos Stefanadis, MD, FACC, FESC
Hippokration Hospital, First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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Figure 1 The difference in atherosclerotic plaque temperature from proximal vessel wall temperature ( T) in non-culprit lesions in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stable angina (SA). The bottom of the box represents the first quartile, the top of the box represents the third quartile, and the line in the box represents the median value.
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Figure 2 The difference in atherosclerotic plaque temperature from proximal vessel wall temperature (T) in non-culprit lesions in untreated patients and in patients under statin treatment. The bottom of the box represents the first quartile, the top of the box represents the third quartile, and the line in the box represents the median value
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