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Table 2 Comparison of high-risk plaque features detected by invasive angiography and intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) in CHIPs and non-CHIPs

From: Relationship between coronary hyper-intensive plaques identified by cardiovascular magnetic resonance and clinical severity of acute coronary syndrome

 

CHIPs (n = 8)

Non-CHIPs (n = 22)

P value

Lipid length, mm

9.4 (8.3–10.0)

8.9 (5.5–10.0)

0.400

Max lipid arc, degree

302.9 (281.8–332.6)

276.7 (224.3–313.5)

0.185

Lipid-rich plaque

4 (50%)

10 (45%)

1.000

TCFA

0 (0%)

4 (18%)

0.550

Plaque rupture

5 (63%)

2 (9%)

0.007

Calcification

2 (25%)

11 (50%)

0.407

Thrombus

7 (88%)

4 (18%)

0.001

Red thrombus

5 (71%)

2 (50%)

 

White thrombus

2 (29%)

2 (50%)

 

Macrophage accumulation

2 (25%)

10 (45%)

0.419

Intimal vasculature

3 (38%)

4 (18%)

0.345

Percent diameter stenosis

72.7 ± 19.7

56.7 ± 14.2

0.020

  1. Values are n (%) or median (interquartile range). CHIP coronary hyper-intensive plaque, OCT optical coherence tomography, TCFA thin-cap fibroatheroma