ANGIOSCOPIC ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY LESIONS UNDERLYING THROMBUS

Authors
WAXMAN S MITTLEMAN MA ZARICH SW FITZPATRICK PJ LEWIS SM LEEMAN DE SHUBROOKS SJ SNYDER JT MULLER JE NESTO RW
Citation
S. Waxman et al., ANGIOSCOPIC ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY LESIONS UNDERLYING THROMBUS, The American journal of cardiology, 79(8), 1997, pp. 1106
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
79
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)79:8<1106:AAOCLU>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
This study examines the characteristics of coronary lesions in which t hrombus is found as assessed by angioscopy before percutaneous translu minal coronary angioplasty in patients with various coronary syndromes . Our findings demonstrate that the plaque underlying intracoronary th rombus is usually yellow and/or disrupted, and support in vitro observ ations that lipid-rich plaques are highly thrombogenic and that disrup tion of these plaques is associated with in situ thrombosis.