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Table 2 Angiographic and OCT finding

From: Comparison of circulating dendritic cell and monocyte subsets at different stages of atherosclerosis: insights from optical coherence tomography

 

Patients with TCFA (n = 20)

Patients without TCFA (n = 28)

p value

Age, yrs

62.4 ± 7.7

60.8 ± 9.4

0.541

Male

14 (70.0)

25 (89.3)

0.091

Multivessel disease

6 (30.0)

7 (25.0)

0.701

Culprit vessel

 LAD

10 (50.0)

10 (35.7)

0.457

 LCX

6 (30.0)

8 (28.6)

 

 RCA

4 (20.0)

10 (35.7)

 

Fibrous cap thickness, μm

48.5 ± 10.9

119.6 ± 22.2

<0.001

Arc of lipid core, degrees

252.0 ± 77.8

170.4 ± 67.7

<0.001

Calcium

9 (45.0)

5 (17.9)

0.041

MLA, mm2

4.5 ± 2.5

5.5 ± 2.7

0.215

Relative stenosis, %

56.8 ± 13.4

48.4 ± 16.2

0.064

  1. Values are mean ± SD or n (%)
  2. Abbreviations: LAD left anterior descending coronary artery, LCX left circumflex coronary artery, MLA minimum lumen area, OCT optical coherence tomography, RCA right coronary artery, TCFA thin-cap fibroatheroma. P-values of risk factors with significance are presented as italic form