Current issues of the diagnosis and treatment of unstable coronary atherosclerotic plaque

Authors: M.Yu. Kaputin, A.V. Biryukov, A.A. Medvedev

Company: Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, L'va Tolstogo ul., 6–8, St. Petersburg, 197022, Russian Federation


DOI: https://doi.org/10.15275/kreatkard.2015.04.04

For citation: Kaputin MYu, Biryukov AV, Medvedev AA. Current issues of the diagnosis and treatment of unstable coronary atherosclerotic plaque. Kreativnaya Kardiologiya. 2015; 4: 34-39 (in Russian)

Keywords: bioresorbable scaffold coronary stenting vulnerable plaque local intracoronary therapy

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Abstract

The article provides an overview of contemporary possibilities of noninvasive and invasive diagnostics of coronary plaque structure, as well as alternative methods of ndovascular treatment of vulnerable plaques; criticized current practice of coronary stenting, as well as proposed a new approach to the treatment of vulnerable plaques based on local intracoronary therapy.

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Chief Editor

Leo A. Bockeria, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery