Thrombus aspiration without stenting in a patient with anterior STEMI: Regression and healing of an unstable plaque assessed by OCT at 24 months of follow‐up

Avtandil Babunashvili; Samir Pancholy; Tamara Babunashvili; Alexander Prokhorov

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4549

Clinical Case Reports (Aug 2021)

Thrombus aspiration without stenting in a patient with anterior STEMI: Regression and healing of an unstable plaque assessed by OCT at 24 months of follow‐up

Avtandil Babunashvili,
Samir Pancholy,
Tamara Babunashvili,
Alexander Prokhorov

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Avtandil Babunashvili: Center of Endosurgery Moscow Russian Federation
Samir Pancholy: Geisinger Commonwealth School of MedicineThe Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Scranton PA USA
Tamara Babunashvili: Center of Endosurgery Moscow Russian Federation
Alexander Prokhorov: Center of Endosurgery Moscow Russian Federation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4549
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 8
pp. n/a – n/a

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Abstract In selected cases, when STEMI caused by mild or moderate degree lesion with a large concomitant thrombus, additional OCT‐guided PCI strategy after thrombus removal allows us to defer stenting with the follow‐up natural healing of the vessel wall.

Published in Clinical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-0904 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20500904

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