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Coronary pseudostenosis (PS) are increasingly visualized during coronary interventions. In many patients PS are readily recognized by a characteristic angiographic pattern, but in other cases the diagnosis remains difficult. The value of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in the study of PS remains unknown. In this study, IVUS was used to assess the morphologic appearance of the vessel wall in 10 consecutive patients showing images of PS during coronary interventions. Mean age of the group was 60+/-12 years and two patients were female. IVUS was performed with a motorized pullback system to assess lumen, plaque, and total vessel cross-sectional areas. Measurements were performed both at the site of PS and at the distal reference segment. PS were always located on angled coronary segments. In one patient no lumen narrowing was detected with IVUS at the site of PS. In the remaining nine patients, however, a very localized elliptic-shaped lumen narrowing was demonstrated. As compared with the distal reference segment, coronary lumen (6.3+/-2.2 vs. 12.7+/-4.8 mm2, P < 0.001) and total vessel area (11.9+/-3.3 vs. 16.1+/-6.1 mm2, P < 0.05) were smaller at the site of PS. Severe lumen asymmetry was also documented at this site. In addition, a characteristic image of a flattened, three-layered wall, overlying a hypoechogenic space, was visualized in five patients. This unique pattern was considered the correlate of a partial coronary intussusception. PS induced some resistance to the advancement of catheters in two patients and temporary flow impairment in two additional patients. However, in every case, the image of PS disappeared once the guidewire was removed. Thus, at sites with PS, IVUS allows ruling out severe atherosclerosis and coronary dissections. In addition, IVUS also provides important diagnostic clues, including the image of intussusception, for making the correct diagnosis of this benign entity.
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PMID:Value of intravascular ultrasound in the assessment of coronary pseudostenosis during coronary interventions. 1034 31

We describe a 67-year-old man who developed a dissection of the right common carotid arterial wall with intussusception two years following endarterectomy for atherosclerosis. We suggest that the previous surgical procedure resulted in a thinned and weakened media. With a disruption of the intima, a dissection into the inner third of the media formed, and blood in the false lumen buckled the intima into the lumen of the blood vessel. Hemodynamic forces then probably played a role in the propagation of the dissection and the formation of an intussusception. Complete occlusion by thrombus followed, resulting in a massive cerebral infarct, the likely terminal event. Carotid endarterectomy rarely may be followed by dissection of the vascular wall and intussusception.
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PMID:Dissection and intussusception of the common carotid artery following endarterectomy. 2599 Oct 22