Tatsuya Fukase, Tomotaka Dohi, Shinichiro Fujimoto, Ryota Nishio, Yui O Nozaki, Ayako Kudo, Mitsuhiro Takeuchi, Norihito Takahashi, Yuichi Chikata, Hirohisa Endo, Yuko O Kawaguchi, Shinichiro Doi, Hiroki Nishiyama, Makoto Hiki, Iwao Okai, Hiroshi Iwata, Takayuki Yokoyama, Shinya Okazaki, Katsumi Miyauchi, Hiroyuki Daida, Debiao Li, Yibin Xie, Tohru Minamino
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to compare the coronary plaque characterization by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) (NIRS-IVUS), and to determine whether pre-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) evaluation using CMR identifies high-intensity plaques (HIPs) at risk of peri-procedural myocardial infarction (pMI). Although there is little evidence in comparison with NIRS-IVUS findings, which have recently been shown to identify vulnerable plaques, we inferred that CMR-derived HIPs would be associated with vulnerable plaque features identified on NIRS-IVUS...
January 30, 2023: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance