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Peri‐procedural myocardial infarction: Plaques and patients “at‐risk”
Author(s) -
Goldstein James A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.27393
Subject(s) - medicine , culprit , myocardial infarction , acute coronary syndrome , peri , cardiology , perioperative , infarction , surgery
Key Points Patients with acute coronary syndrome are at risk for peri‐procedural myocardial infarction (PMI) Lipid‐laden plaques with thinned disrupted fibrous caps are most prone to PMI PMI is associated with worse outcome over time, though whether such damaging events are causal or instead reflect patients prone to future instability from non‐culprit vulnerable plaques requires further delineation