Correlation Between Morphologic Characteristics and Local Temperature Differences in Culprit Lesions of Patients With Symptomatic Coronary Artery Disease
Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD*,
Andreas Synetos, MD,
Elli Stefanadi, MD,
Sophia Vaina, MD,
Virginia Markou, MD,
Manolis Vavuranakis, MD, FACC,
Eleftherios Tsiamis, MD,
Dimitrios Tousoulis, MD, FACC and
Christodoulos Stefanadis, MD, FACC
First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, University of Athens, Greece
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Figure 3 Temperature Measurements Stratified by Clinical Syndrome and Remodeling Index
The  T stratified by clinical syndrome and remodeling index. The bottom of each box represents the first quartile; the top of the box represents the third quartile, and the line in the box represents the median value of T. Abbreviations as in Figure 1.
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Figure 4 Correlation of T and Ri
Remodeling index (Ri) is positively correlated with the difference between atherosclerotic plaque temperature and background temperature (T) (p < 0.01; r = 0.59).
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