Low Endothelial Shear Stress Predicts Evolution to High-Risk Coronary Plaque Phenotype in the Future: A Serial Optical Coherence Tomography and Computational Fluid Dynamics Study [Coronary Artery Disease]

Conclusions—
Low ESS is significantly associated with baseline high-risk plaque phenotype and progression to higher-risk phenotype at 6 months.

Clinical Trial Registration—
URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01110538.

Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - August 2, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yamamoto, E., Siasos, G., Zaromytidou, M., Coskun, A. U., Xing, L., Bryniarski, K., Zanchin, T., Sugiyama, T., Lee, H., Stone, P. H., Jang, I.-K. Tags: Atherosclerosis Coronary Artery Disease Source Type: research