Neoatherosclerosis with silent plaque rupture in a saphenous vein graft causing no re-flow phenomenon assessed by optical coherence tomography and histopathology

Cardiol J. 2022;29(4):718-719. doi: 10.5603/CJ.2022.0063.

Authors

Takao Konishi¹, Yuki Takahashi², Sho Kazui², Yutaro Yasui², Kohei Saiin², Seiichiro Naito², Sakae Takenaka², Yoshifumi Mizuguchi², Atsushi Tada², Yuta Kobayashi², Kazunori Omote², Takuma Sato², Kiwamu Kamiya², Toshiyuki Nagai², Shinya Tanaka^{3

4}, Toshihisa Anzai^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. takaokonishi0915@gmail.com.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
³ Department of Cancer Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
⁴ Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: Neoatherosclerosis; histopathology; optical coherence tomography; plaque rupture; saphenous vein graft.

MeSH terms

Humans
Plaque, Atherosclerotic*
Saphenous Vein / diagnostic imaging
Tomography, Optical Coherence*