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To the Editor: Mizuno et al. (Jan. 30 issue)1 provide important information about the morphology of coronary-artery thrombi in unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction using angioscopy. In this study, all the patients with acute infarction had red (fibrin-rich) thrombi, whereas the majority of patients with unstable angina had grayish-white (platelet-rich) clots. The authors postulated that these differences in color might be due to differences in the composition or age of the thrombi. Several decades ago Friedman and Van der Bovenkamp2 reported that the composition of a thrombus associated with a ruptured plaque depends on whether the contents of the…
本文言語 | English |
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ページ(範囲) | 206-207 |
ページ数 | 2 |
ジャーナル | New England Journal of Medicine |
巻 | 327 |
号 | 3 |
DOI | |
出版ステータス | Published - 1992 7月 16 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 医学(全般)