外周血中泡沫细胞的出现可能预示急性冠脉综合症的发生

t present, there is not a conventional method which can detect atherosclerotic plaque rupture in clinical practice. Foam cells derived from Mononuclear cells are a kind of characteristic pathological cells in plaque formation. According to pathphysiologic mechanism of formation and rupture of intravascular plaque, we infer that foam cells which do not exist in peripheral blood originally will appear in peripheral blood after plaque rupture. And between plaque rupture and the occurrence of ACS, there is certain time interval. If foam cells detected in peripheral blood in the time interval, it will strongly indicate that intravascular plaque had broken.