Clinical perspective of optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound in STEMI patients.

In the last years, the intravascular ultrasound study (IVUS) and further the optical coherence tomography (OCT) became two helpful tools to characterize of the atherosclerotic plaque.

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