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. 2018 Jan 9;39(22):2070–2076. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx786

Table 2.

In vivo prevalence of plaque rupture and plaque erosion in patients with acute coronary syndromes and acute myocardial infarction

Author Presentation Number Modality Plaque with rupture (%) Plaque without rupture (%) Others
Hayashi et al.31 AMI 107 (72) Angioscopy 61 39
Kubo et al.32 AMI 30 OCT 73 23
Kusama et al.33 Anterior MI 91 IVUS 59 41
Ozaki 2011 ACS 57 (35) CT 71 29
Jia et al.34 ACS 126 (104) OCT 44 31 8% (CN)
Higuma et al.35 AMI 112 OCT 64 27 8% (CN)
Saia et al.36 AMI 140 (97) OCT 65 33 2% (SCAD)
Niccoli et al.37 ACS 139 OCT 59 41
Yonetsu et al.38 ACS 318 OCT 44 41 15%a
Kajander et al.39 AMI 93 OCT 49 44 7% (CN)
Kwon et al.41 ACS 133 OCT 68 32

Number: a total number of patients enrolled in the study. The number in parenthesis is the number of patients included in analysis.

ACS, acute coronary syndromes; AMI, acute myocardial infarction; CN, calcified nodule; IVUS, intravascular ultrasound; OCT, optical coherence tomography; SCAD, spontaneous coronary artery dissection.

a

Massive thrombus.