DOCUMENTATION BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND OF THROMBUS OVERLYING A SMALL ATHEROMATOUS PLAQUE IN A CORONARY-ARTERY IN UNSTABLE ANGINA-PECTORIS AND IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION

Authors
BIRNBAUM Y LUO H FISHBEIN MC SAMUELS B SIEGEL RJ
Citation
Y. Birnbaum et al., DOCUMENTATION BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND OF THROMBUS OVERLYING A SMALL ATHEROMATOUS PLAQUE IN A CORONARY-ARTERY IN UNSTABLE ANGINA-PECTORIS AND IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION, The American journal of cardiology, 79(11), 1997, pp. 1568
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
79
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)79:11<1568:DBIUOT>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Rupture of atheromatous plaques leading to acute coronary syndromes us ually occur in lipid-reach and well-developed coronary lesions. We des cribe 2 unusual patients with acute coronary syndromes in whom there w as angiographic and intravascular ultrasound evidence of an intralumin al thrombus overlying a small, nonocclusive plaque in an enlarged coro nary artery.