Goldstein James A
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, Michigan.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2017 Nov 15;90(6):915-916. doi: 10.1002/ccd.27393.
Patients with acute coronary syndrome are at risk for peri-procedural myocardial infarction (PMI) Lipid-laden plaques with thinned disrupted fibrous caps are most prone to PMI PMI is associated with worse outcome over time, though whether such damaging events are causal or instead reflect patients prone to future instability from non-culprit vulnerable plaques requires further delineation.