Overlapping drug-eluting stents (DES) are frequently implanted to cover long segments of diseased and injured vessel, or as a bailout technique for edge dissection or incomplete lesion coverage. DES overlap is, nevertheless, associated with strut malapposition and poor intimal coverage, which may increase the risk of stent thrombosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate stent strut apposition in overlapping DES.
Optical coherence tomography to assess malapposition in overlapping drug-eluting stents / Tanigawa, Jun; Barlis, Peter; Dimopoulos, Konstantinos; Di Mario, Carlo. - In: EUROINTERVENTION. - ISSN 1774-024X. - ELETTRONICO. - 3:(2008), pp. 580-583.
Optical coherence tomography to assess malapposition in overlapping drug-eluting stents
Di Mario, Carlo
2008
Abstract
Overlapping drug-eluting stents (DES) are frequently implanted to cover long segments of diseased and injured vessel, or as a bailout technique for edge dissection or incomplete lesion coverage. DES overlap is, nevertheless, associated with strut malapposition and poor intimal coverage, which may increase the risk of stent thrombosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate stent strut apposition in overlapping DES.
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