Management and Outcome of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Caused by Plaque Rupture Versus Plaque Erosion: An Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Study

Management and Outcome of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Caused by Plaque Rupture Versus Plaque Erosion: An Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Study

Background Plaque rupture and erosion are the 2 most common mechanisms for acute coronary syndromes. However, the outcome of these 2 distinct pathologies in patients with acute coronary syndromes has never been studied. Methods and Results We retrospectively studied 141 patients with acute coronary...

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Main Authors: Sining Hu, Yinchun Zhu, Yingying Zhang, Jiannan Dai, Lulu Li, Harold Dauerman, Tsunenari Soeda, Zhao Wang, Hang Lee, Chao Wang, Chunyang Zhe, Yan Wang, Gonghui Zheng, Shaosong Zhang, Haibo Jia, Bo Yu, Ik‐Kyung Jang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
acute coronary syndrome
optical coherence tomography
plaque erosion
plaque rupture
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.004730

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