Clinical Predictors for Lack of Favorable Vascular Response to Statin Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Serial Optical Coherence Tomography Study

Background--Previous studies have demonstrated that statin therapy improves cardiac outcomes, probably by stabilizing thin-cap fibroatheroma in patients with coronary artery disease. However, major adverse cardiac events still occur in some patients, despite statin therapy. The aim of this study is...

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Main Authors: Minami, Yoshiyasu (Author), Wang, Zhao (Author), Aguirre, Aaron D. (Author), Ong, Daniel S. (Author), Kim, Chong‐Jin (Author), Uemura, Shiro (Author), Soeda, Tsunenari (Author), Lee, Hang (Author), Fujimoto, James (Author), Jang, Ik‐Kyung (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019-06-25T16:58:12Z.
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