Angioscopic Evaluation of Coronary-Artery Thrombi in Acute Coronary Syndromes

ik Kyung Jang; Herman K. Gold; Kyoichi Mizuno; Kimio Satomura; Akira Miyamoto; ko Arakawa; Toshio Shibuya; Tsunenori Arai; Akira Kurita; Haruo Nakamura; John A. Ambrose

doi:10.1056/NEJM199207163270317

Angioscopic Evaluation of Coronary-Artery Thrombi in Acute Coronary Syndromes

ik Kyung Jang, Herman K. Gold, Kyoichi Mizuno, Kimio Satomura, Akira Miyamoto, ko Arakawa, Toshio Shibuya, Tsunenori Arai, Akira Kurita, Haruo Nakamura, John A. Ambrose

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To the Editor: Mizuno et al. (Jan. 30 issue)¹ provide important information about the morphology of coronary-artery thrombi in unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction using angioscopy. In this study, all the patients with acute infarction had red (fibrin-rich) thrombi, whereas the majority of patients with unstable angina had grayish-white (platelet-rich) clots. The authors postulated that these differences in color might be due to differences in the composition or age of the thrombi. Several decades ago Friedman and Van der Bovenkamp² reported that the composition of a thrombus associated with a ruptured plaque depends on whether the contents of the…

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	206-207
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	327
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199207163270317
Publication status	Published - 1992 Jul 16

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