Residual thrombus pattern in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction caused by plaque erosion versus plaque rupture after successful fibrinolysis: an optical coherence tomography study

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Apr 8;63(13):1336-1338. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.025. Epub 2013 Dec 18.

Authors

Sining Hu¹, Taishi Yonetsu², Haibo Jia¹, Antonios Karanasos³, Aaron D Aguirre⁴, Jinwei Tian¹, Farhad Abtahian², Rocco Vergallo², Tsunenari Soeda², Hang Lee⁵, Iris McNulty², Koji Kato⁶, Bo Yu⁷, Kyoichi Mizuno⁶, Konstantinos Toutouzas³, Christodoulos Stefanadis³, Ik-Kyung Jang⁸

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 First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, The Key Laboratory of Myocardial Ischemia, Chinese Ministry of Education, Harbin, China. Electronic address: yubodr@163.com.
⁸ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ijang@partners.org.

PMID: 24361315
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.025

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Coronary Angiography
Coronary Thrombosis / complications*
Coronary Thrombosis / diagnosis
Coronary Thrombosis / drug therapy
Electrocardiography*
Female
Fibrinolytic Agents / therapeutic use*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis
Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / complications*
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / diagnosis
Rupture, Spontaneous
Thrombolytic Therapy / methods*
Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*

Substances

Fibrinolytic Agents