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Overview

Renu Virmani is affiliated with the CVPath Institute in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Other notable subfields include Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Immunology.

The main topics of Renu Virmani's work include:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Peripheral Artery Disease Management
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
  • Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  • Circulation
  • European Heart Journal

Renu Virmani has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Aloke V. Finn
  • Rika Kawakami
  • Yu Sato
  • Kenji Kawai
  • Atsushi Sakamoto

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Renu Virmani include:

  • Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention, 2022, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Medial Arterial Calcification, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Definitions and Clinical Trial Design Principles for Coronary Artery Chronic Total Occlusion Therapies: CTO-ARC Consensus Recommendations, 2021, Circulation
  • Microthrombi as a Major Cause of Cardiac Injury in COVID-19, 2021, Circulation
  • Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography From Clinical Uses to Emerging Technologies, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Lessons From Sudden Coronary Death A Comprehensive Morphological Classification Scheme for Atherosclerotic Lesions

    Renu Virmani;Frank D. Kolodgie;Allen P. Burke;Andrew Farb

  • From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II.

    Morteza Naghavi;Peter Libby;Erling Falk;S. Ward Casscells;S. Ward Casscells

  • Pathology of Drug-Eluting Stents in Humans: Delayed Healing and Late Thrombotic Risk

    Michael Joner;Aloke V. Finn;Andrew Farb;Erik K. Mont

  • Pathology of the Vulnerable Plaque

    Renu Virmani;Allen P. Burke;Andrew Farb;Frank D. Kolodgie

  • Coronary Risk Factors and Plaque Morphology in Men with Coronary Disease Who Died Suddenly

    Allen P. Burke;Andrew Farb;Gray T. Malcom;You-hui Liang

  • Consensus standards for acquisition, measurement, and reporting of intravascular optical coherence tomography studies: a report from the International Working Group for Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Standardization and Validation.

    Guillermo J. Tearney;Evelyn Regar;Takashi Akasaka;Tom Adriaenssens

  • Mechanisms of Plaque Formation and Rupture

    Jacob Fog Bentzon;Fumiyuki Otsuka;Renu Virmani;Erling Falk

  • Apoptosis in Myocytes in End-Stage Heart Failure

    J Narula;N Haider;R Virmani;T G DiSalvo

  • Localized Hypersensitivity and Late Coronary Thrombosis Secondary to a Sirolimus-Eluting Stent: Should We Be Cautious?

    Renu Virmani;Giulio Guagliumi;Andrew Farb;Giuseppe Musumeci

  • Intraplaque hemorrhage and progression of coronary atheroma.

    Frank D Kolodgie;Herman K Gold;Allen P Burke;David R Fowler

  • Coronary plaque erosion without rupture into a lipid core. A frequent cause of coronary thrombosis in sudden coronary death.

    Andrew Farb;Allen P Burke;Anita L Tang;Youhui Liang

  • Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression and Vulnerability to Rupture Angiogenesis as a Source of Intraplaque Hemorrhage

    Renu Virmani;Frank D. Kolodgie;Allen P. Burke;Aloke V. Finn

  • Computed tomographic angiography characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques subsequently resulting in acute coronary syndrome.

    Sadako Motoyama;Masayoshi Sarai;Hiroto Harigaya;Hirofumi Anno

  • Pathological Correlates of Late Drug-Eluting Stent Thrombosis Strut Coverage as a Marker of Endothelialization

    Aloke V. Finn;Michael Joner;Gaku Nakazawa;Frank Kolodgie

  • Concept of Vulnerable/Unstable Plaque

    Aloke V. Finn;Masataka Nakano;Jagat Narula;Frank D. Kolodgie

  • Multislice computed tomographic characteristics of coronary lesions in acute coronary syndromes.

    Sadako Motoyama;Takeshi Kondo;Masayoshi Sarai;Atsushi Sugiura

  • The role of endomyocardial biopsy in the management of cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology.

    Leslie T. Cooper;Kenneth L. Baughman;Arthur M. Feldman;Andrea Frustaci

  • Healed plaque ruptures and sudden coronary death: evidence that subclinical rupture has a role in plaque progression.

    Allen P. Burke;Frank D. Kolodgie;Andrew Farb;Deena K. Weber

  • The role of endomyocardial biopsy in the management of cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology. Endorsed by the Heart Failure Society of America and the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Leslie T. Cooper;Kenneth L. Baughman;Arthur M. Feldman;Andrea Frustaci

  • Pathology of Acute and Chronic Coronary Stenting in Humans

    Andrew Farb;Giuseppe Sangiorgi;Andrew J. Carter;Virginia M. Walley

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank D. Kolodgie
Frank D. Kolodgie CVPath Institute
Allen P. Burke
Allen P. Burke University of Maryland, Baltimore
Andrew Farb
Andrew Farb US Food and Drug Administration
Jagat Narula
Jagat Narula Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James K. Min
James K. Min NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
Matthew J. Budoff
Matthew J. Budoff UCLA Medical Center
Filippo Cademartiri
Filippo Cademartiri Fondazione Monasterio
Daniel S. Berman
Daniel S. Berman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jonathon Leipsic
Jonathon Leipsic University of British Columbia
Gianluca Pontone
Gianluca Pontone University of Milan

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