Angiology: Open Access

Angiology: Open Access
Open Access

ISSN: 2329-9495

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Naotaka Okamoto

Naotaka Okamoto

Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America.

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High-risk coronary plaques have been considered predictive of adverse cardiac events. Both wall shear stress (WSS) in patients with hemodynamically significant lesions and optical coherence tomography (OCT) -verified thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) are associated with plaque rupture, the most common underlying mechanism of acute coronary syndrome. 

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