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FIGURE 1.3 Ruptured plaque associated with nonocclusive luminal thrombus. A 45-year-old man with a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus,
and hyperlipidemia died suddenly after jogging during his lunch break. (A) A postmortem angiography showed mild luminal narrowing with haziness at proximal RI. (BeD) Serial OCT images revealed the presence of plaque rupture (in C, D) with nonocclusive luminal thrombus (white arrowhead in D) and an adjacent distinct supercial signal-rich region (thin white arrows in B) with rapid attenuation (white arrowheads in B), indicating thin-cap broatheroma. Disrupted brous cap also shows distinct supercial signal-rich region (thin white arrows in C and D). (E) Histology conrmed the presence of plaque rupture with an acute brin-rich thrombus (shown as Thr) overlying the NC (section stained with Movat pentachrome). (F) Immu­nostaining for CD68-positive macrophages demonstrated substantial inltration of foamy macrophages within the disrupted brous cap (thin black ar- rows). LAD, left anterior descending artery; LCX, left circumex artery; LM, left main coronary artery; NC, necrotic core; OCT, optical coherence tomography; RI, ramus intermedius. Reprinted from Otsuka F, et al. Clinical classication of plaque morphology in coronary disease. Nat Rev Cardiol
2014;11:379e89 with permission from Elsevier.
plaque burden. Lesions from type 2 diabetic subjects have larger mean necrotic cores (P < .01), and macrophages, T cells, and HLA-DR are signicantly greater in diabetic subjects (P ¼ .03, P ¼ .0 03, and P < .0001, respectively) compared with nondiabetics [19].
Several OCT studies have demonstrated that plaque rupture is the most frequent cause of acute coronary syndromes
[20,21]. These studies reported the mean thickness of the brous cap as 54 mm (interquartile range 50e60 mm); in 67% the
thickness was <70 mm, and 95% had a cap thickness <80 mm. These clinical data are consistent with our histological autopsy data, considering tissue shrinkage is a well-known phenomenon of xation and dehydration during preparation of parafn sectioning and staining. Moreover, there are important differences between OCT and histology in terms of denition of plaque rupture, specically the presence of intraplaque cavity. The OCT denition of plaque rupture includes presence of a disrupted thin brous cap but also intraplaque cavity; the latter is likely an artifact of aspiration throm­bectomy along with contrast ushing. Histopathology studies have never reported intraplaque cavity in autopsy studies in patients who had never undergone any intervention. In addition, it is possible that intraplaque cavities may also be associated with distal embolization into intramyocardial coronary arteries.
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NECROTIC CORE EXPANSION (PLAQUE FISSURE AND INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE)
Two factors contribute to the sudden increase in lesion enlargement prior to plaque rupture. These include plaque hem­orrhage with or without plaque ssure and silent, asymptomatic plaque ruptures. In the 1960s, Constantinides and col­leagues put forth the concept of cracks or ssures communicating with the luminal as one of the pathways by which blood could enter lesions (Fig. 1.4A) [22]. In the 1980s, Michael Davies expanded this concept and described this lesion as plaque ssures, which were observed in 63% of patients dying of coronary thrombosis. The ssure occurred at the junction of the plaque cap with the more normal intima, communicating with the underlying necrotic core that occupied <15% of the vessel circumference [23,24]. Davis highlighted that ssures should be distinguished from plaque ruptures. Plaque ruptures are usually surrounded by an obvious luminal thrombus. On the other hand, ssures are most likely to involve an intraintimal thrombus composed of brin and platelets with interspersed erythrocytes. In addition, even if thrombi exist, luminal thrombi related to ssures are most commonly very small. In fact, plaque ssure is characterized as a tear in an eccentric plaque with underlying small necrotic core, and the brous cap is not thin. The path of the ssure is generally derived from the necrotic core reaching the lumen, lined by a few macrophages, and red blood cells a nd brin are observed in the tract and within the necrotic core. In our hands the incidence is <10%.
Furthermore, intraplaque vasa vasorum in our experience is the dominant cause of intr apla qu e hemorrhag e (Fig. 1.4). In 1938 Wartman suggested that intraplaque hemorrha g e is a major contributor to the progressi on of c oron ar y lesions. These studies involved injection of silicon polymer into atherosclerotic human coronary arteries, which demonstrated an elaborate microvascular network (the vasa vasorum) extending from the adventitia through the media into the thick ene d intima, whereas nonatherosclerotic vessels rarely had vasa vasorum. We believe intraplaque hem­orrhage ar ise s from disruption of thin-walled microvessels that are lined by a discontinuous endothelium without supporting pericytes [25]. Moreover, we and others have suggested that intraplaque hemorrhage and rupture of the brous cap are associated with an increased density of microvessels [12,26,27]. Intraplaque vasa vasorum reaches the intima most frequently from the adventitia. Kumamoto et al. have shown that intraplaque hemorrhage is 28 times more likely to o riginate from the adventitia compared with the lumen [28]. In addition, highly calcied and brotic arteries (stable plaque) generally had low vascular density, and luminal stenosis and inammation. We r ep orte d that hemorrhage into a p reexisting necrotic core plays an important role in its expansion [29]. The free cholesterol in the necrotic core
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FIGURE 1.4 Plaque morphologies that can lead to necrotic core expansion. Histological and schematic images are shown for (A) plaque ssure and
(B) intraplaque hemorrhage. Arrowheads indicate neoangiogenesis. Reprinted from Yahagi K, et al. Nat Rev Cardiol 2015;13:79e98 with permission from Elsevier.
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may arise from the red cell membranes, which are the richer in free cholest erol than any other cell membrane in the body. Furthermore, i n our previous study we showed that intraplaque hemorrhage is probably derived from the leaky vasa vasorum [29,30]. The intraplaque vasa vasorum lacks competent endothelial junctions and is usually not supported by pericytes, which is not true of the adventitial vasa vasorum. The endothelium of neoangiogenic vessels also showed intracytoplasmic vacuoles, membrane blebs, and basement membrane detachments [25,31]. Inadequate endothelial junctions promote red cell leakage and are associated with indicators of inammation, such as macrophages and T lymphocytes [31,32].
Erosion
Erosions are the second most prevalent cause of coronary thrombosis (Fig. 1.1B and C). Erosion lesions have a luminal thrombus and the underlying plaque, which shows a lack of endothelium but is rich in smooth muscle cells and pro­teoglycans with very few macrophages and T cells [5]. The lesions underlying plaque erosion are mostly characterized as early lesions with rare calcication compared with the advanced lesions of plaque ruptures. The type of plaque located underneath erosions consists of pathological intimal thickening (16%) without necrotic core and hemorrhage, early broatheroma (34%), and a late broatheroma (50%) [33]. In addition, the underlying media is intact, with well-dened internal and external elastic lamina (IEL and EEL) observed in 32% of cases; focally disrupted IEL (from inammation and angiogenesis) is seen in 52%, and cases in which both IEL and EEL are disrupted are uncom mon (16%). The medial smooth muscle cells behave more like a normal vessel (mildly stenotic), with highest expression of smooth muscle a-actin, followed by smooth muscle myosin heavy chain and smoothelin, thus supporting the concept that erosions may be a result of vasospasm. The types of proteoglycan underneath the erosions are mostly composed of versican and hyaluronan, whereas PRs show a minimum of proteoglycan and hyaluronan, but are rich in type I collagen. At the interphase of thrombus and underlying plaque in erosions there is a high expression of CD44, which promotes thrombosis [34]. Calcication is not observed in more than half of erosions (56%), microcalcication is detected in 40% of erosions, and fragmented calci cation and sheets of calcication are in less than 2% [33]. Erosion is generally associated with negative remodeling, whereas plaque rupture is associated with positive remodeling [35]. Usually erosions are observed at a single site (96%), and only rarely are observed at multiple sites (4%). Most erosions are eccentric (82%), whereas ruptures are equally eccentric and concentric (54% and 46%, respectively) [36]. At the time of presentation, the thrombus has been shown more frequently to be older, showing signs of early healing, i.e., nuclear breakdown of leukocytes, and/or proliferation of smooth muscle and endothelial cells especially in 88% of plaque erosions, compared with 54% of PRs (P < .0001). Plaque erosions frequently show more distal emboli than plaque ruptures (71% vs. 42%, respectively) [15]. The lesions of erosi ons are less stenotic (70 11%, in cross section) compared with those of ruptures (78 12%, in cross section P < .03).
The tissue at the interface of thrombus involves activated smooth muscle cells, which are present in a proteoglycan­rich matrix composed mainly of hyaluronan, versican, and collagen type III. By contrast, the br ous cap of plaque ruptures consists of primarily collagen type I, biglycan, and decorin [36,37]. Usually, erosions show minimal inam­mation with a few or absent macrophages and T lymphocytes and the plaque is not disrupted [37]. A previous study reported that 68% of erosions showed absent or minimal inammation within the transition zone between thrombus and underlying plaque and the remaining 32% had mild inammation. In addition, 34% of erosions show no or minimal inammation in the advent itial/medial border, whereas inammation is mild in 50% and rarely moderate or severe, in 18% of cases (14% and 4%, respectively) [38]. Morphological features of the underlying lesions of erosions are poorly understood. In addition, plaque erosions were more commonly seen in women, with over 80% of coronary thrombi seen at autopsy in women <50 years of age being plaque erosions, whereas the frequency of erosion in older women (>
50 years) is rare. Patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing OCT who have evidence of erosion are also
younger than those identied as having plaque rupture or calcied nodule (53.8 13.1 years vs. 60.6 11.5 and
65.1 5.0 years, respectively; P < .01). Furthermore, only 40% of plaque erosions showed severe narrowing (>75% cross-sectional area narrowing), whereas 48% had 51%e75% narrowing, while the remaining 12% had <50% nar­rowing [36,38].
It was not possible to diagnose plaque erosion in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome in the cathe­terization lab until the introduction of OCT in clinical practice. As the use of OCT has been expanded, it has become possible to observe the underlying plaques with ruptured brou s ca ps or intact br ous ca p s lea di ng t o coro na r y thrombotic events [39].Definite OCT plaque erosion was defined as the presence of no disruption of underlying plaque with an acute luminal thrombus [7]. Also, the diagnosis of probable OCT erosion requires a luminal irregular surface or attenuation of underlying plaque b y thrombus with no supercial lipid or calcication at the proximal or distal sections
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FIGURE 1.5 Multiple plaque erosions in three major coronary arteries. (A) Postmortem radiography showed mild focal calcication in all major
coronary arteries. (B) Histologic examination showed the left circumex artery (LCX) with a nonocclusive platelet-rich organizing thrombus (Th) with underlying late broatheroma. (C) The right coronary artery (RCA) showed a luminal brin-rich organizing thrombus with an underlying late broa­theroma. (D) The diagonal branch artery also showed a luminal brin-rich organizing thrombus with an underlying pathological intimal thickening. High­power images from boxes in (C) and (D) are shown. Fibrin-rich thrombi with a few inammatory cells are seen on the luminal surface. Corresponding macrophage (MF) stain and optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) images (Terumo, Tokyo, Japan) are depicted. Moderate macrophage inltration is seen around the circumference of the vessel (red arrowheads); however, the culprit site (white arrows) is devoid of macrophages in the RCA. Note the absence of macrophages in the diagonal branch (macrophage-stained section of D). OFDI showed luminal surface irregularity with minimal attenuation because the thrombus had focal areas of platelets interspersed with large areas of brin in the RCA and the diagonal branch (white arrows), and a bright layer with attenuation (red arrowheads) indicates presence of macrophages in the RCA (C). (Bottom) Serial sections at high power stained by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), platelet (PLT; CD61), brin (brin II), and macrophage (CD68) from the box in (D) are shown. Platelet stains (brown) show few supercial and interspersed platelets with a predominance of brin (brown, adjacent section) and rare macrophage inltration (brown). *Placement of the guidewire. L, lumen; LAD, left anterior descending; NC, necrotic core. Reprinted from Yahagi K, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imag 2014;7:1172e4 with
permission from Elsevier.
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of culprit lesions. Previous OCT studies showed a 31% prevalence of plaque erosions in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes. However, an OCT-dened di stinc tio n b et ween erosion, plaque rupture, and calc ied nodule can be difcult to make. Although OCT has good axial resolution, it cannot clearly identify differentiated cell types. In addition, the presence of luminal thrombus attenuates the depth of light penetration of OCT in the presence of blood i n the lumen (Fig. 1.5).
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Calcified Nodule
Calcied nodule is the least frequent cause of coronary thrombosis [9]. Calcied nodule is characterized as a luminal surface disrupted by nodules of dense calcium with overlying thrombus and little or no underlying necrotic core in arteries that are highly calcied and tortuous and often have large sheets of calcication (Fig. 1.1D). In 236 autopsy cases, the prevalence of calcied nodule was only 5% [6]. Although the mechanism of calcied nodules remains unknown, it is believed that fragmentation of calcied plates is the underlying mechanism. Fragments of calcied plates lead to small nodules of calcication, which disrupt the overlying brous cap and endothelial lining, attracting platelets and brin that lead to a luminal thrombus. Intraplaque brin is often observed in nodular calcication, possibly resulting from discon­tinuity of surrounding capillaries. Most eruptive calcied nodules are eccentric lesions where calcied nodules protrude into the overlying lumen with endothelial disruption that initiates platelet adherence. The location of calcied nodules is most frequently in the mid-right coronary artery or left anterior descending artery at sites of maximal tors ion [9].In addition, calcied nodules are most frequent in older individuals with renal failure, diabetes, and coronary tortuosity. It is important to recognize the difference between eruptive calcied noduleand nodular calcication; the latter occurs within the plaque and does involve the brous cap or the lumen but is often associated with medial wall disruption with or without extension into the adventitia.
In OCT studies, calcied nodular tissue has been de ned as an accumulation of nodular calcication (small calcium deposits) with disruption of the brous cap on the calci ed plate and an overlying white thrombus. Calcium was dened as a signal-poor or heterogeneous region with a sharply delineated border [40] (Fig. 1.6). A study by Lee et al. reported an incidence of 4.2% in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (48%) and stable angina (52%) with a high incidence of diabetes (34%) and renal insufciency (28%) [41]. Further studies are needed to validate the utility of OCT in the identication of calcied nodules.
Healed Plaque Rupture
Healed plaque ruptures (HPRs) are healed lesions of a disrupted brous cap with an overlying organized thrombus, which was nonocclusive, that shows the presence of type III collagen in a proteoglycan-rich matrix and an underlying disrupted thin cap that is made up of type I collagen (Fig. 1.7) [11]. In the early 1990s, Mann and Davies described the concept of HPRs that were responsible for the progression of luminal narrowing through episodic rupture with healing in individuals who had died from acute coronary syndromes (Fig. 1.7A and B) [42]. Of the 130 subjects who died suddenly of ischemic heart disease, 314 episodes of coronary thrombosis were found: an average of 2.4 per patient [42]. Silent luminal thrombi are most likely to be nonocclusive thrombi that can result from silent plaque ruptures or erosions. However, if they become occlusive and heal, that constitutes a chronic total occlusion (Fig. 1.7C). Generally, the provisional matrix at healed lesions is an organized thrombus that may or may not show the presence of brin, but is inltrated by smooth muscle cells, granulation tissue with proteoglycans, and type III collagen. The propagated thrombus away from the ruptured site, i.e., proximal and distal to the plaque rupture, is replaced by a brous plaque (Fig. 1.8).
As the process of healing advances, type III collagen is gradually replaced primarily by type I collagen with complete endothelialization of the lumen. Healed ruptures may occur from a single rupture at one site or may evolve from multiple ruptures that show layers of necrotic core surrounded by brous tissue where the deepest rupture site represents the oldest rupture site [11]. We have shown that the percentage stenosis increases as the number of healed rupture sites increases [11]. Mann and Davies have shown that lesions with <20% diameter stenosis have the smallest percentage of HPRs, 16%; those with 21%e50% narrowing had an intermediate percentage of HPRs, 19%, whereas those with >51% diameter stenosis had the highest percentage of HPRs, 73%. In our sudden coronary death autopsy studies, HPRs were observed in 61% of cases. However, it is difcult to identify sites of healed erosions. Findings of multilayered appearance of dense collagen with alternating layers of smooth muscle cells and proteoglycans may represent healed plaque erosions.
Currently, in the general population, the prevalence of silent ruptures remains unknown. Culprit lesions of stable plaques had the highest prevalence (80%), the second was acute rupture (75%), and the third was plaque erosion (9%) [43]. Multiple HPRs with layering were most commonly located in the proximal coronary arteries. In addition, the underlying percentage of luminal narrowing in acute ruptures was signicantly higher than that in HPRs (79 15% vs. 66 14%;
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FIGURE 1.6 Calcied nodule. A 57-year-old man underwent percutaneous coronary intervention in the left anterior descending artery for stable angina.
The left circumex artery was evaluated for the presence of signicant lesions by OCT, and subsequent 3D reconstruction of OCT images was performed. (A) Coronary angiography of the left circumex artery. Black lines indicate the studied segment. (BeE) Upstream y-through views (distal to proximal) of 3D reconstructions of OCT images indicating the sites corresponding to (F)e(M). (FeM) OCT images showing presence of red thrombus (arrows in F, H, I, K, and M) in areas of brocalcic plaque (asterisks in F, G, I, J, and L) in the absence of plaque rupture. Sharp protrusions of calcium into the lumen are seen in (G), (J), and (L) (asterisks) with very thin, or absent, overlying intimal layer. OCT, optical coherence tomography; P, posterior; A, Anterior; R, Right; L, Left; F, Forward. Reproduced with permission from Karanasos A, Ligthart JM, Witberg KT, Regar E. Calcied nodules: an underrated
mechanism of coronary thrombosis? JACC Cardiovasc Imag 2012;5(10):1071e2.
P ¼ .0001), which is suggestive of the culmination of multiple previous silent events in sudden coronary death with
thrombosis. Also, sites of virgin acute plaque ruptures had less stenosis, 70%, and were observed in 25% of cases dying with acute plaque rupture.
With OCT imaging, healed ruptures can be identied by the presence of a multilayered appearance with different
optical densities of the necrotic core and healed rupture sites vs. brous cap (Fig. 1.9). However, as the process of healing
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FIGURE 1.7 Episodic rupture and healing can lead to chronic total occlusion. Histological and schematic images are shown for (A) single-layer healed
plaque rupture, (B) multiple-layer healed plaque rupture, and (C) chronic total occlusion. Arrowheads indicate neoangiogenesis. NC, necrotic core. Histological image in (A) reprinted Otsuka, F. et al. Clinical classication of plaque morphology in coronary disease. Nat Rev Cardiol 2014;11(7):379e89 © with permission from Nature Publishing Group. Histological image in (C) reprinted from Yahagi K, et al. Sex differences in coronary artery disease: pathological observations. Atherosclerosis 2015;239(1):260e7 © with permission from Elsevier.
Healed thrombus
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FIGURE 1.8 Nonocclusive propagated thrombi that heal can contribute to the formation of brous plaques. Histological and schematic images are
shown for a brous plaque. Reprinted from Yahagi K, et al. Nat Rev Cardiol 2015;13:79e98 with permission from Elsevier.
continues, the type III collagen is replaced by type I collagen; therefore it is probably more difcult to differentiate by OCT between broatheromas and HPRs. In acute plaque rupture and early HPR the lesion sites are positively remodeling with or without severe stenosis; however, as healing progresses, the lesions begin to shrink from cross-linking of type I collagen and therefore HPR may eventually show negative remodeling.
Collagen
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FIGURE 1.9 Healed plaque rupture. (A) An ex vivo OCT image shows a layered pattern of the signals and underlying signal-poor region with diffuse
border (white arrowheads) and focal signal-rich conuent punctate area with rapid attenuation (white arrows). (B) A corresponding histological section of the human coronary plaque (stained with Movat pentachrome) shows healed plaque rupture and underlying NC with extensive hemorrhage and the presence of foamy macrophages close to the luminal surface (black arrows). (C) The layered pattern of the OCT signals is highlighted in a high-power image (white double arrows). (D) A high-power histological section (stained with Movat pentachrome) shows numerous smooth muscle cells within the newly formed proteoglycan-rich neointima (black double arrows close to the luminal surface), with clear demarcation from the underlying old collagen­rich brous cap. (E) In a high-power image of a Sirius red-stained section (taken with polarized light) that corresponds to the image in D, dense (type I) collagen forms a brous cap, seen as a reddish-yellow region, and is overlaid with newer (type III) collagen, detected as a greenish area. NC, necrotic core;
OCT, optical coherence tomography. Reprinted from Otsuka F, et al. Clinical classication of plaque morphology in coronary disease. Nat Rev Cardiol 2014;11:379e89 with permission from Elsevier.
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CONCLUSION
Luminal thrombus in coronary arteries is platelet rich and grossly appears as a white thrombus, whereas a red thrombus that is rich in red cells separated by lines of Zahn is a propagated thrombus and is located at the proximal ends of culprit sites. Coronary artery thrombus can result from three different mechanisms; the most frequent is plaque rupture (65%e70%), followed by erosion (25%e30%), and calcied nodule is the least frequent (2%e7%). Patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes with or without ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction at culprit sites have rupture, erosion, or calcied nodule, whereas those presenting with unstable angina may have all three types of thrombosis but the thrombus is nonocclusive. Also, such culprit sites may have plaque hemorrhage or plaque ssure. Patients with stable angina have severe stenosis (>75% cross-sectional area narrowing) and the plaques at these sites are usually heavily calcied, with or without a necrotic core, but the brous cap is thick.
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