Incidence and clinical character of left main artery atherosclerosis in angiographically normal patients

摘要：

Background Left main coronary artery (LMCA) atherosclerosis is a high-risk disease but its occurrence is often underestimated by coronary angiography.Possible explanations for the limitation of plaque detection by angiography include compensatory vessel enlargement in face of intracoronary plaque formation, the lack of reference segments in diffuse atherosclerosis as well as technical limitations.Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) has been shown to be more accurate and sensitive than coronary angiography in identifying coronary atherosclerotic lesions.We retrospectively analyzed the incidence of left main artery atherosclerosis in angiographically normal patients and the clinical character of these patients.

作者: YAO Yi-an LAI Yan ZHUANG Shao-wei LI Ji-ming HU Bo LUO Yu WU Ying-biao LIU Xue-bo

作者单位: Department of Cardiology,Shanghai East Hospital,Tongji University School of Medicine,Shanghai,China

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 第11届中国介入心脏病学大会

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 73-74

在线出版日期: 2013-03-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）