Intraplaque Hemorrhage: Can OCT Identify This Elusive Pathological Substrate?

Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2021 Sep:30:89-90. doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2021.02.001. Epub 2021 Feb 4.

Authors

Nicolás Manuel Maneiro Melón¹, Santiago Jiménez Valero², Agustín Albarrán González-Trevilla¹, María Teresa Velázquez Martín³

Affiliations

¹ Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Avenida de Córdoba s/n., 28041 Madrid, Spain.
² Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de La Paz, Paseo de la Castellana 261, 28046 Madrid, Spain.
³ Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Avenida de Córdoba s/n., 28041 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 33632641
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2021.02.001

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute coronary syndrome; Intraplaque hemorrhage; Intravascular imaging; Optical coherence tomography.

MeSH terms

Coronary Artery Disease* / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Vessels / surgery
Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging
Hemorrhage / etiology
Humans
Plaque, Atherosclerotic*
Predictive Value of Tests
Tomography, Optical Coherence
Ultrasonography, Interventional