Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9935839 | The American Journal of Cardiology | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The long-term outcome of patients who present with an identified plaque rupture in a nonflow-limiting lesion is not well known. We retrospectively studied 17 consecutive patients in whom intravascular ultrasound identified plaque rupture in nonflow-limiting lesions (minimum lumen area >4.0 mm2) that were not treated with coronary intervention. After a mean follow-up of 43 ± 25 months, events related to those lesions were 1 death (6%) of undetermined cause (6%) that occurred after 69 months, no myocardial infarction, and 2 revascularizations (12%) that occurred at 3 and 67 months. Overall, the cumulative rate of cardiac events was 18%.
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Authors
Patrick MD, Sang-Wook MD, Gary S. MD, Jerzy MD, Pawel MD, Akiko MD, Esteban MD, Jana A. PhD, Augusto D. MD, Lowell F. MD, Kenneth M. MD, PhD, William O. MD, Ron MD, Neil J. MD,