Optical Coherence Tomography for the Diagnosis of Exercise-Related Acute Cardiovascular Events and Inconclusive Coronary Angiography

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Case . Eruptive calcific nodule with plaque rupture. (a) Coronary angiography demonstrated an irregular plaque with nonsignificant borderline stenosis in the proximal left anterior descending artery. (b, c, d) OCT findings: fibrocalcific plaques (yellow arrows), one eruptive calcific nodule protruding into the lumen (red arrow) associated with plaque rupture (white arrow). Shadow caused by the wire. OCT: optical coherence tomography.

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