title: Finding the vulnerable plaque.
abstract: At a recent Transcatheter Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco the PROSPECT Trial was presented by Dr. Greg Stone. Prospect stands for Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree. This was a natural history study of atherosclerosis using multi-modality intracoronary imaging to prospectively identify vulnerable plaque. More on this later.
authors.forename: C Richard
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Conti
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D054059:Coronary Occlusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional