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SUBMITTER: Jia H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3874870 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jia Haibo H Abtahian Farhad F Aguirre Aaron D AD Lee Stephen S Chia Stanley S Lowe Harry H Kato Koji K Yonetsu Taishi T Vergallo Rocco R Hu Sining S Tian Jinwei J Lee Hang H Park Seung-Jung SJ Jang Yang-Soo YS Raffel Owen C OC Mizuno Kyoichi K Uemura Shiro S Itoh Tomonori T Kakuta Tsunekazu T Choi So-Yeon SY Dauerman Harold L HL Prasad Abhiram A Toma Catalin C McNulty Iris I Zhang Shaosong S Yu Bo B Fuster Valentine V Narula Jagat J Virmani Renu R Jang Ik-Kyung IK
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 20130627 19
<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of this study was to characterize the morphological features of plaque erosion and calcified nodule in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) by optical coherence tomography (OCT).<h4>Background</h4>Plaque erosion and calcified nodule have not been systematically investigated in vivo.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 126 patients with ACS who had undergone pre-intervention OCT imaging were included. The culprit lesions were classified as plaque rupture (PR), erosion (OCT ...[more]