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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Unlocking the Secrets of Acute Coronary Syndromes Using Intravascular Imaging: From Pathophysiology to Improving Outcomes.

Anastasios Apostolos, Antonios Karanasos, Nikolaos Ktenopoulos, Sotirios Tsalamandris, Panayotis K Vlachakis, Ioannis Kachrimanidis, Ioannis Skalidis, Marios Sagris, Leonidas Koliastasis, Maria Drakopoulou and 3 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Economic Evaluations of Intravascular Imaging Guidance for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: A Scoping Review.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2026
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  8. Optical Coherence Tomography in Acute Coronary Syndromes.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Anastasios ApostolosFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2616-7952
Antonios KaranasosDepartment of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, University Hospital of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8052-6739
Nikolaos KtenopoulosFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0995-7015
Sotirios TsalamandrisFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9945-930X
Panayotis K VlachakisFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0736-4942
Ioannis KachrimanidisFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0009-0006-8964-329X
Ioannis SkalidisDepartment of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4374-0389
Marios SagrisFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3473-1368
Leonidas KoliastasisFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7966-9174
Maria DrakopoulouFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Andreas SynetosFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8516-1177
Konstantinos TsioufisFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7636-6725
Konstantinos ToutouzasFirst Department of Cardiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Hippokration" General Hospital of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) represents the most severe manifestation of coronary artery disease. Intravascular imaging, both intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), have played crucial roles for the impressive reduction in mortality of ACS. Intravascular imaging is useful for the detection of atherosclerotic mechanism (plaque rupture, calcified nodules, or plaque erosions) and for the evaluation of nonatherosclerotic and nonobstructive types of ACS. In addition, IVUS and OCT play a crucial role in the optimization of the PCI. The aim of the current review is to present the role of intravascular imaging in identifying the mechanisms of ACS and its prognostic role in future events, to review the current guidelines suggesting intravascular imaging use in ACS, to summarize its role in PCI in patients with ACS, and to compare IVUS and OCT.

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intravascular imagingintravascular ultrasoundNSTEMIoptical coherence tomographyreviewSTEMI

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