Optical coherence tomography: assessment of coronary artery disease and guide to percutaneous coronary intervention.
Imran IftikharNismat JavedHamid Sharif KhanJahanzeb MalikAdeel Ur RehmanMirza Adnan BaigPublished in: Scottish medical journal (2020)
The main OCT benefit is in borderline lesions on CA, in whom OCT identifies significant coronary stenosis and leads to PCI indication in patients. In the post-PCI context, OCT leads to an indication of PCI optimisation in half of the coronary lesions.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- optical coherence tomography
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- acute myocardial infarction
- antiplatelet therapy
- diabetic retinopathy
- cardiovascular events
- acute coronary syndrome
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- optic nerve
- ejection fraction
- coronary artery
- chronic kidney disease
- coronary artery bypass
- type diabetes
- cardiovascular disease
- prognostic factors
- left ventricular
- aortic valve