title: The role of a multimodality imaging approach in diagnosis and stratification of aborted sudden cardiac death.
abstract: A 34-year-old man was admitted after an episode of aborted sudden cardiac death. The initial investigation including electrocardiogram, chest x-ray, transthoracic echocardiogram, and biomarkers were normal. Although coronary angiography showed nonsevere stenosis, optical coherence tomography revealed severe obstruction in the artery with a layered appearance of the vessel wall; it was consistent with the presence of mural thrombus.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Quintanilla
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Cesar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Avila
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meraz
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Electronic address: jerjes@prodigy.net.mx.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jerjes-Sanchez
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Erasmo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de la Peña-Almaguer
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diaz-Cid
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Alejandro R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Trevino
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular, TEC Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
authors.forename: Luis Carlos
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Perez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*