The reality of vulnerable plaque detection.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Perspectives in the Diagnosis, Clinical Impact, and Management of the Vulnerable Plaque.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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2. Reversal of Atherosclerotic Plaque Growth and Vulnerability: Effects of Lipid-Modifying and Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Agents.Biomedicines · 2024
   Review
3. Management of Coronary Vulnerable Plaque With Medical Therapy or Local Preventive Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.JACC. Asia · 2024
   Review
4. Prophylactic stenting of vulnerable plaques: pros and cons.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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5. Hazy lesion in a ventricular tachycardia patient: stents or drugs?The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2022
   Article
6. Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2022
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7. Vulnerable Plaque in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Identification, Importance, and Management.US cardiology · 2022
   Review
8. Molecular imaging of plaques in coronary arteries with PET and SPECT.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2014
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9. Coronary CT angiography in the quantitative assessment of coronary plaques.BioMed research international · 2014
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10. Detection of high-risk atherosclerotic plaque: report of the NHLBI Working Group on current status and future directions.JACC. Cardiovascular imaging · 2012
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Association between IVUS findings and adverse outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease: the VIVA (VH-IVUS in Vulnerable Atherosclerosis) Study.2011

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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