Intraoperative ultrasound imaging of coronary artery ostial stenosis.

FIGURE 2. High-frequency ECUS indicating the mobile calcified plaque (A, a ostium. C, The plaque at the RCA ostium (arrow) was confirmed under direct From the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. Disclosures: Authors have nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication Dec 3, 2014; accepted for publication Dec 3, 2014; available ahead of print Jan 13, 2015. Address for reprints: Hirokuni Arai, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-5-45 Yushima Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8519, Japan (E-mail: [email protected]). J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015;149:1206-7 0022-5223/$36.00 Copyright 2015 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.12.005