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Extensive development of vulnerable plaques as a pan-coronary process in patients with myocardial infarction: an angioscopic study

Masanori Asakura, MD^*, Yasunori Ueda, MD, PhD, Osamu Yamaguchi, MD^*, Takayoshi Adachi, MD, Atsushi Hirayama, MD, PhD, Masatsugu Hori, MD, PhD, FACC^* and Kazuhisa Kodama, MD, PhD, FACC

^* Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Cardiovascular Division, Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Department of Cardiology, Osaka South National Hospital, Osaka, Japan

View larger version (82K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 A representative patient (58-year-old man) with anterior myocardial infarction. Angioscopic images of the culprit lesion (nos. 8 and 9) and of all the yellow plaques in the nonculprit segments are presented. Thrombus was detected over the yellow plaque in the culprit segment.

View larger version (21K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Number of yellow plaques observed in the nonculprit segments. The distribution of the number of yellow plaques observed in a coronary artery is presented. The mean (± SD) number of the yellow plaques is 3.2 ± 1.7.