Culprit segments identified by optical coherence tomography in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Two case reports

Authors :: Satoshi Ikeda
Seiji Koga
Naoto Ashizawa
Tomohiko Yasunaga
Masayoshi Takeno
Koji Maemura
Daisuke Sato
Yuji Koide
Tomoo Nakata
Source :: Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics. 27(1):47-51
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: 日本心血管インターベンション治療学会, 2012.
Abstract: The high resolution of optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides detailed information about coronary plaque morphology, which enables the mechanism of acute myocardial infarction to be evaluated. We describe two patients with acute myocardial infarction in whom culprit segments were identified by OCT, but not by either coronary angiography or intravascular ultrasound.<br />Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics, 27(1), pp.47-51; 2012

Subjects :: Male
Cardiac Catheterization
genetic structures
medicine.medical_treatment
Myocardial Infarction
Coronary Artery Disease
Chest pain
Coronary Angiography
Severity of Illness Index
Coronary artery disease
Electrocardiography
Intravascular ultrasound
Myocardial infarction
Cardiac catheterization
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Cardiology
Female
Radiology
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Tomography, Optical Coherence
Thrombus
medicine.medical_specialty
Chest Pain
Acute myocardial infarction
Culprit
Risk Assessment
Optical coherence tomography
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Ultrasonography, Interventional
Ulcer
Aged
Monitoring, Physiologic
Aspirin
Rupture, Spontaneous
business.industry
Heparin
Anticoagulants
Plaque rupture
medicine.disease
eye diseases
sense organs
business

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