Coronary artery imaging with intravascular high-frequency ultrasound
Original Research | By Potkin BN, Bartorelli AL, Gessert JM et al.
Safe and effective clinical application of new interventional therapies may require more precise imaging of atherosclerotic coronary arteries. To determine the reliability of catheter-based intravascular ultrasound as an imaging modality, a miniaturized prototype ultrasound system (1-mm transducer; center frequency, 25 MHz) was used to acquire two-dimensional, cross-sectional images in 21 human coronary arteries from 13 patients studied at nec...
Original Research | By Lee JB, Mintz GS, Lisauskas JB et al.
A calcified nodule is a type of potentially vulnerable plaque accounting for approximately 2% to 7% of coronary events. Because its intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) features have never been validated, the aim of this study was to assess the IVUS characteristics of calcified nodules in comparison to histopathology. IVUS was performed in 856 pathologic slices in 29 coronary arteries (11 left anterior descending, 5 left circumflex, and 13 right cor...
Original Research | By Okabe T, Mintz GS, Buch AN et al.
Drug-eluting stent (DES) thrombosis (ST) can be devastating. The study aim was to evaluate intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) predictors for DES thrombosis by comparing IVUS studies after implantation in 13 patients with 14 DES thrombosis lesions with a group of controls (30 lesions in 27 patients) matched for history of chronic renal failure and type of DES. Five patients (38%) discontinued dual antiplatelet therapy...
Original Research | By Hong MK, Mintz GS, Lee CW et al.
AIMS - In many countries, drug-eluting stent implantation is the dominant interventional strategy. We evaluated the clinical, angiographic, procedural, and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) predictors of angiographic restenosis after sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation. METHODS AND RESULTS - SES implantation was successfully performed in 550 patients with 670 native coronary lesions. Six-month ...
Original Research | By Fujii K, Mintz GS, Kobayashi Y et al.