Various types of plaque disruption in culprit coronary artery visualized by optical coherence tomography in a patient with unstable angina

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 187-189

  Tanimoto, Takashi ^a   Imanishi, Toshio ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Yamano, Takashi ^a   Kitabata, Hironori ^a   Takarada, Shigeho ^a   Kubo, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Nobuo ^a   Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Mizukoshi, Masato ^a   Akasaka, Takashi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; Plaque disruption; Unstable angina

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE RUPTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 58549112962     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-07-0715     Document Type: Article

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