New Insights into the Association between Fibrinogen and Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Vulnerability: An Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Study

• Main Authors: Jun Wang (Author), Lu Jia (Author), Xing Li (Author), Siyu Jin (Author), Xiaomei Li (Author), Fen Liu (Author), Chunfang Shan (Author), Yu Zhang (Author), Yining Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi-Wiley, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background. Fibrinogen levels have been associated with coronary plaque vulnerability in experimental studies. However, it has yet to be determined if serum fibrinogen levels are independently associated with coronary plaque vulnerability as detected by optical coherence tomography (OCT) in patients...