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Images in cardiology
Intravascular ultrasound and virtual histology interpretation of plaque rupture and thrombus in acute coronary syndromes
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A 62-year-old woman with a history of a thrombolysed inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction was referred to our tertiary cardiac centre for urgent interventional treatment of a right coronary artery lesion. Initial angiographic shots of the culprit lesion (panel A) showed an appearance consistent with an ulcerated lesion and also some distal lesion haziness.
Subsequent in-house study with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and IVUS-VH analysis showed …
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Ethics approval Approval from the Cheshire regional ethics committee.
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