Scottish study aims to develop new PET tracers to detect atherothrombosis

Nicholas Leider | | Cardiovascular Business | Vascular & Endovascular

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh are starting a $2 million (1.8 million euro) project to develop new tracers to illuminate unstable plaques in patients. The study is focused on improving detection of coronary atherothrombosis.

"We believe [this grant] will have a huge impact on our ability to better understand heart disease,” said David Newby, the project leader and professor at the University of Edinburgh's British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence. "Heart attacks are often missed, with a third of people misdiagnosed as having non-heart chest pain later dying from heart disease. Better tools are desperately needed to help identify those most at risk."

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Scottish scientists to develop tools to stop heart attacks

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