Management and Outcome of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Caused by Plaque Rupture Versus Plaque Erosion: An Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Study

Background-Plaque rupture and erosion are the 2 most common mechanisms for acute coronary syndromes. However, the outcome of these 2 distinct pathologies in patients with acute coronary syndromes has never been studied. Methods and Results-We retrospectively studied 141 patients with acute coronary...

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Main Authors: Hu, Sining (Author), Zhu, Yinchun (Author), Zhang, Yingying (Author), Dai, Jiannan (Author), Li, Lulu (Author), Dauerman, Harold (Author), Soeda, Tsunenari (Author), Wang, Zhao (Contributor), Lee, Hang (Author), Wang, Chao (Author), Zhe, Chunyang (Author), Wang, Yan (Author), Zheng, Gonghui (Author), Zhang, Shaosong (Author), Jia, Haibo (Author), Yu, Bo (Author), Jang, Ik‐Kyung (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Heart Association, 2018-05-03T19:22:20Z.
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