Atherosclerosis and Atheroma Plaque Rupture: Imaging Modalities in the Visualization of Vasa Vasorum and Atherosclerotic Plaques

Figure 5

Vasa vasorum images in a 63-year-old man with hypertension. Adventitial transfer constant was 0.129 min⁻¹ before therapy and 0.099 min⁻¹ after 1-year treatment. There was subtle gradation of color in adventitial zone (arrows). Reprint with permission from [91].

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