Noninvasive In Vivo Coronary Artery Thrombus Imaging.

BACKGROUND:The diagnosis and management of myocardial infarction are increasingly complex, and establishing the presence of intracoronary thrombosis has major implications for both the classification and treatment of myocardial infarction. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to investigate whether positron emission tomographic (PET) and computed tomographic (CT) imaging could noninvasively detect in vivo thrombus formation in human coronary arteries using a novel glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist-based radiotracer, 18METHODS:In a single-center observational case-control study, patients with or without acute myocardial infarction underwent coronary 1818 18181818CONCLUSIONS:Coronary 1818