Optical coherence tomography provides high-resolution visualization of coronary arteries, improving diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to coronary artery disease and optimizing percutaneous coronary intervention.
This review provides an overview of the clinical utility of optical coherence tomography and offers a practical algorithm for its use in guiding percutaneous coronary intervention.
Intravascular imaging, particularly optical coherence tomography, has brought significant improvement in diagnostic and therapeutical approaches to coronary artery disease and has offered superior high-resolution visualization of coronary arteries. The ability to obtain images of intramural and transmural coronary structures allows the study of the process of atherosclerosis, effect of therapies, mechanism of acute coronary syndrome and stent failure, and performance of new devices and enables the interventional cardiologist to optimize the effect of percutaneous coronary intervention. In this review, we provide the summary of the latest published data on clinical use of optical coherence tomography as well as practical algorithm for optical coherence tomography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention for daily interventional practice.
Roland et al. (Fri,) conducted a review in Coronary artery disease. Optical coherence tomography was evaluated. Optical coherence tomography provides high-resolution visualization of coronary arteries, improving diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to coronary artery disease and optimizing percutaneous coronary intervention.
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