Author/Authors :
Ohlmann، نويسنده , , Patrick and Kim، نويسنده , , Sang-Wook and Mintz، نويسنده , , Gary S. and Pregowski، نويسنده , , Jerzy E. Tyczynski، نويسنده , , Pawel and Maehara، نويسنده , , Akiko and Escolar، نويسنده , , Esteban and Fournadjieva، نويسنده , , Jana A. and Pichard، نويسنده , , Augusto D. and Satler، نويسنده , , Lowell F. and Kent، نويسنده , , Kenneth M. and Suddath، نويسنده , , William O. a، نويسنده ,
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%.
