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In Vivo Diagnosis of Plaque Erosion and Calcified Nodule in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome by Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography

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Optical coherence tomography is a promising modality for identifying OCT-erosion and OCT-CN in vivo in patients with acute coronary syndrome and is more common in older patients.
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This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 2013-11-05 and is currently open access. It has received 617 citations till now.

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Mechanisms of Plaque Formation and Rupture

TL;DR: Mechanisms of atherosclerotic plaque initiation and progression; how plaques suddenly precipitate life-threatening thrombi; and the concepts of plaque burden, activity, and vulnerability are discussed.
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Acute Myocardial Infarction in Women: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association

TL;DR: This statement provides a comprehensive review of the current evidence of the clinical presentation, pathophysiology, treatment, and outcomes of women with acute myocardial infarction.
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Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

TL;DR: This statement provides a formal and updated definition for the broadly labelled term MINOCA (incorporating the definition of acute myocardial infarction from the newly released “Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction”) and provides a clinically useful framework and algorithms for the diagnostic evaluation and management of patients with myocardia in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease.
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Pathophysiology of native coronary, vein graft, and in-stent atherosclerosis

TL;DR: Comparison of lesion progression in native atherosclerotic disease, atherosclerosis in saphenous vein grafts, and in-stent neoatherosclerosis provides insight into the pathogenesis of atheroma formation in natural and iatrogenic settings.
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Lessons From Sudden Coronary Death A Comprehensive Morphological Classification Scheme for Atherosclerotic Lesions

TL;DR: This review will reconsider the current paradigm for understanding the critical, final steps in the progression of atherosclerotic lesions, and devise a simpler classification scheme that is consistent with the AHA categories but is easier to use, able to deal with a wide array of morphological variations, and not overly burdened by mechanistic implications.
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From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II.

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TL;DR: The term "vulnerable patient" may be more appropriate and is proposed now for the identification of subjects with high likelihood of developing cardiac events in the near future and a quantitative method for cumulative risk assessment of vulnerable patients needs to be developed.
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Pathology of the Vulnerable Plaque

TL;DR: Of the three types of coronary thrombosis, a precursor lesion for acute rupture has been postulated and the non-thrombosed lesion that most resembles the acute plaque rupture is the thin cap fibroatheroma (TCFA).
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Site of intimal rupture or erosion of thrombosed coronary atherosclerotic plaques is characterized by an inflammatory process irrespective of the dominant plaque morphology.

TL;DR: The underlying atherosclerotic plaque morphology in complicated coronary artery lesions causing acute myocardial infarction is heterogeneous with respect to both plaque architecture and cellular composition, however, the immediate site of plaque rupture or erosion is always marked by an inflammatory process.
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Consensus standards for acquisition, measurement, and reporting of intravascular optical coherence tomography studies: a report from the International Working Group for Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Standardization and Validation.

TL;DR: This document may be broadly used as a standard reference regarding the current state of theIVOCT imaging modality, intended for researchers and clinicians who use IVOCT and analyze IVO CT data.
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