Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Characteristics, and Interventions of Braid-Like Coronary Artery: Case Series Analysis Based on Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 5

List of previous case reports on braid-like coronary artery.

s/n	Author	Publish years	Sex	Age (year)	Clinical diagnosis	Culprit vessel	Braid-like vessel	Ischemic indication for target lesion	OCT findings		Revascularization of target lesion	Follow-up
									3-layered structure	Residual thrombi
1	Sane et al. [1]	1988	Female	55	Valvular heart disease	—	RCA	o	—	—	o	—
2	Berman et al. [4]	1990	Male	51	—	—	RCA	Exercise stress+; SPECT+	—	—	o	—
3	Gregorini et al. [7]	1995	Male	60	Unstable angina	—	LAD, LCX	SPECT+	—	—	o	—
4			Male	62	Post-AMI angina	LAD	LCX	—	—	—	o	—
5			Female	45	Post-AMI fibrinolysis angina	LAD	d-LAD	ECG+	—	—	o	—
6	Martuscelli et al. [15]	2000	Male	42	Unstable angina	LAD	RCA	o	—	—	o	LCX-PCI after 4 years with RCA unchanged on CAG
7	Kaya et al. [8]	2006	Male	56	AMI, exertional angina	RCA	RCA	CAG+	—	—	o	—
8	Kursaklioglu et al. [16]	2006	Male	48	Unstable angina	RCA	LCX	o	—	—	o	Event-free for 5 years with LCX unchanged on CAG
9	Yildirim et al. [17]	2000	Male	0.75	Kawasaki disease	—	RCA	o	—	—	o	Event-free for 4 years with RCA unchanged on CAG
10	Cho et al. [18]	2010	Male	50	Anterior-OMI, Stroke	LAD	LAD	o	o	Trace	—	—
11	Kato et al. [19]	2011	Male	60	STEMI	LAD	RCA	o	o	o	o	—
12	Soylu et al. [9]	2012	Male	48	Inferior-OMI	RCA	RCA	Stress SPECT+	—	—	o	Event-free for 2 years
13	Toutouzas et al. [20]	2012	Male	41	Unstable angina	LAD	m-LAD	o	o	o	Stent	—
14	Yuan et al. [12]	2013	Male	62	NSTEMI	LAD	RCA	ECG+	—	—	o	—
15	Bozkurt et al. [6]	2013	Male	52	Anterior-OMI	LAD	p-LAD, D1, m-LAD	o	o	o	o	—
16	Uribarri et al. [10]	2013	Male	78	Stable angina	RCA	RCA	Stress SPECT +	—	o	CABG	—
17	Akyuz et al. [2]	2013	Male	45	Unstable angina	—	LAD + LCX + RCA	Exercise stress+; SPECT−	—	—	o	—
18	Gómez-monterrosas et al. [21]	2014	Male	29	NSTEMI	LAD	LAD	o	o	o	Stent	Event-free at 3 months
19	Sakurai et al. [22]	2014	Male	74	Unstable angina	RCA	m-RCA, d-RCA	Stress UCG + stress SPECT+	o	—	o	—
20	Alsancak et al. [3]	2015	Male	54	Inferior-OMI, stable angina	RCA	RCA	ECG+; UCG + SPECT+	—	—	Stent	—
21	Haraki et al. [23]	2016	Male	59	Anterior-OMI AHF AF	LAD	LAD	SPECT+	—	—	Stent	Event-free and stent patent after 14 months
22	Val-Bernal et al. [11]	2017	Male	39	Sudden death	RCA	RCA	Autopsy	—	—	—	—
23	Nakano et al. [24]	2017	Male	42	Kawasaki disease	RCA	RCA	SPECT	—	—	Stent	—
24	Bi et al. [5]	2018	Male	59	STEMI	RCA	RCA	ECG+; enzymes+	o	o	CABG	—

S/N: serial number; OCT: optical coherence tomography; AMI: acute myocardial infarction; OMI: old myocardial infarction; p-: proximal; m-: middle; d-: distal; RCA: right coronary artery; LAD: left anterior descending artery; LCX: left circumflex; ECG: electrocardiogram; UCG: ultrasound cardiogram; SPECT: single-photon emission computed tomography; AHF: acute heart failure; and AF: atrial fibrillation.