By Releasing the Brakes With Immunotherapy, Are We Accelerating Atherosclerosis?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora (L.K.).
² Division of Cardiology, Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (W.B.).
³ Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (C.L.).

Editorial

Lavanya Kondapalli et al. Circulation. 2020.

. 2020 Dec 15;142(24):2312-2315.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.051753. Epub 2020 Dec 14.

¹ Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora (L.K.).
² Division of Cardiology, Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (W.B.).
³ Division of Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (C.L.).

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Keywords: Editorials; T-lymphocytes; coronary artery disease; immunotherapy; inflammation.

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