European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 28, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(19):2265; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi853
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ECG-gated multi-detector computed tomography for failure of conventional coronarography to detect intraluminal thrombus in saphenous vein graft
The Cardiovascular Center, University of Picardie, Amiens, France
* Corresponding author:, CHU Amiens Sud, Service de Réanimation Cardiaque, 80054 Amiens Cédex 01, France. Tel: +33 3 22 45 58 70; fax: +33 3 22 45 56 61. E-mail address: leborgne.laurent@chu-amiens.fr
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The rate of saphenous vein graft (SVG) failure is
40% at 5 years. Thrombus formation is largely involved in SVG disease and occurrence of acute coronary syndromes. There is no uniform angiographic definition of intracoronary thrombus, and even if the strictest angiographic criteria require the observation of definite, intraluminal, globular filling defects