BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infraredx, Inc., a medical device company committed to advancing the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and prevention of heart attacks, today announced the first patient enrolled in PROSPECT II, a multi-center, prospective study designed to assess the ability of intravascular imaging to identify non-flow obstructing vulnerable plaques. Lipid core plaque (LCP), which is suspected to be vulnerable plaque, is a type of fatty coronary artery plaque implicated in most heart attacks, and will be identified using the Infraredx TVC Imaging System™, a first-in-class dual modality intravascular imaging system. The study’s first patient was enrolled by David Erlinge, MD, PhD, one of the study’s principal investigators, from Lund University in Sweden.
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