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11998329

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-5-9
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of this study was to assess the three coronary arteries systematically by endocoronary ultrasonography in patients with unstable angina to check the hypothesis of global destabilisation of atherosclerotic plaques in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Sixty two coronary arteries were examined (2.6 per patient). Fifty plaque ruptures were diagnosed (2.08 per patient). Rupture of a plaque of the culprit lesion of the ACS was clearly detected in 9 patients (37.5%). At least one ruptured plaque on a site other than the culprit lesion was observed in 19 patients (79%), on another artery in 70.8% of cases and on two other arteries in 12.5% of cases. A complete endocoronary ultrasonic examination of the three coronary arteries in patients with a first ACS demonstrated that: multiple atherosclerotic plaque rupture may be detected by endocoronary ultrasonography; these multiple plaque ruptures occur simultaneously with the culprit lesion; they are frequent and can be situated on the three main coronary vessels and multiple plaque rupture other than the culprit lesion are less severe, non stenotic and less calcified. Thus, although a single lesion is clinically symptomatic, ACS seems to be associated with global coronary instability.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-9683
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
157-65
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
[Multiple ruptures of atherosclerotic plaques in acute coronary syndrome. Endocoronary ultrasonography study of three arteries].
pubmed:affiliation
Service d'hémodynamique, hôpital cardiovasculaire et pneumologique Louis-Pradel, hospices civils de Lyon, BP Lyon Monchat, 69394 Lyon. gilles.rioufol@univ-lyon1.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract