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Negative Remodeling and Calcified Plaque in Octogenarians With Acute Myocardial Infarction

An Intravascular Ultrasound Analysis

Salah-Eddine Hassani, MD^_*, Gary S. Mintz, MD, Helen S. Fong, BA^_*, Sang-Wook Kim, MD^_*, Zhenyi Xue, MS^_*, Augusto D. Pichard, MD^_*, Lowell F. Satler, MD^_*, Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD^_*, William O. Suddath, MD^_*, Ron Waksman, MD^_* and Neil J. Weissman, MD^_*,_*

^_* Cardiovascular Research Institute/Medstar Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York

View larger version (63K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Soft plaque and ruptured cavity in a patient <65 years old with acute myocardial infarction. EEM = external elastic membrane.

View larger version (56K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Negative remodeling and calcified plaque in an octogenarian with acute myocardial infarction. EEM = external elastic membrane.