GATTO L

Patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) due to plaque rupture had a worse prognosis when compared with those without plaque rupture with a higher rate of target vessel revascularization and readmission for unstable angina, suggesting that both stent failure and disease progression occur more frequently. However, it is not known whether...

Aims Recent frequency-domain optical coherence tomography studies showed that a complete removal of thrombotic materials is rarely achieved after percutaneous coronary interventions for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. Residual intrastent thrombus can embolize distally leading to microcirculatory injury. The aim was to find a...

Background-Clinical consequences of optical coherence tomographic (OCT) high-definition visualization of plaque/stent structures in acute patients remain undefined. In this retrospective substudy, we assessed the prognostic impact of postprocedural culprit lesion OCT findings in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous...