Plaque erosion: in vivo diagnosis and treatment guided by optical coherence tomography

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Jun;7(6):e63-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2013.10.024.

Authors

Sining Hu¹, Haibo Jia¹, Rocco Vergallo², Farhad Abtahian², Jinwei Tian¹, Tsunenari Soeda², Kenneth Rosenfield², Ik-Kyung Jang³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, the Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Chinese Ministry of Education, Harbin, China; Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ijang@partners.org.

PMID: 24947729
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2013.10.024

No abstract available

Keywords: acute coronary syndrome; optical coherence tomography; plaque erosion.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acute Coronary Syndrome / diagnosis*
Acute Coronary Syndrome / etiology
Coronary Vessels / pathology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / complications
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / diagnosis*
Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*