OCT identifies additional vulnerable lesions in post-AMI patients

OCT identifies additional vulnerable lesions in post-AMI patients: "OCT finds additional at-risk lesions in AMI patients
January 29, 2010 Shelley Wood
Wakayama, Japan - In one of the first studies to use optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging to compare plaque vulnerability in different groups of at-risk subjects, Dr Takashi Kubo (Wakayama Medical University, Japan) and colleagues say they can identify important differences in the plaques of AMI patients and of patients with stable angina [1]. Investigators also found that plaques that met the definition of thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA), as well as thinner fibrous caps generally, were more common in the AMI patients than in the stable-angina subjects and that this was true not just of the infarct-related lesions, but also of the noninfarct lesions."