Are significant lesions suitable for intravascular thermography?
Leonidas Diamantopoulosa,*, Xiaoshun Liua, Ivan De Scheerder, Rob Kramsb, Shengiao Lia, Johan Van Cleemputa, Walter Desmeta and Patrick W Serruysb a Cardiology Dept., University Gasthuisberg Leuven, Belgium b Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands * Corresponding author. Leonidas Diamantopoulos MD, PhD, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel.: +32-497459597; fax: +32-16604009 E-mail address: leo{at}otenet.gr’ + u + ‘@’ + d + ”//–> Received 20 February 2003; revised 2 July 2003; accepted 23 July 2003 This paper was guest edited by Prof. Antonio Colombo, EMO Centro Cuore Columbus S.r.l., Italy Abstract Aims The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between acute coronary flow reduction and arterial wall temperature. Methods and results Five pigs with normal coronary arteries were catheterized. Arterial wall temperature was studied with a thermographic system that uses a 4-thermisto
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