Distinct morphological features of ruptured culprit plaque for acute coronary events compared to those with silent rupture and thin-cap fibroatheroma: A combined optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 2209-2216

  Tian, Jinwei ^a,b   Ren, Xuefeng ^a   Vergallo, Rocco ^b   Xing, Lei ^a   Yu, Huai ^a   Jia, Haibo ^a,b   Soeda, Tsunenari ^b   McNulty, Iris ^b   Hu, Sining ^a,b   Lee, Hang ^b   Yu, Bo ^a   Jang, Ik Kyung ^b  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndrome(s); lumen narrowing; plaque rupture; plaque vulnerability; thin cap fibroatheroma

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; FIBROUS CAP THICKNESS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUPTURED CULPRIT PLAQUE; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; VASCULAR DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME(S); LUMEN NARROWING; PLAQUE VULNERABILITY; PLAQUE RUPTURE; THIN-CAP FIBROATHEROMA;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84901608825     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.01.061     Document Type: Article

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