The feasibility of optical coherence tomography guided thrombus aspiration in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction after initial conservative therapy - A pilot study

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4981-4982

  Wieringa, Wouter G ^a   Lexis, Chris P H ^a   Diercks, Gilles F H ^a   Lipsic, Erik ^a   Tan, Eng Shiong ^a   Schurer, Remco A J ^a   Van Der Werf, Hindrik W ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Ad F M ^a   Suurmeijer, Albert J H ^a   Zijlstra, Felix ^b   De Smet, Bart J G L ^a,c   Pundziute, Gabija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Non STEMI; Optical coherence tomography; Thrombus aspiration

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ASPIRATION CATHETER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886422652     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.07.133     Document Type: Article

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