ASSESSMENT OF PERI-STRUT LOW INTENSITY AREAS IDENTIFIED BY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AFTER STENT IMPLANTATION: AN EX VIVO HISTOLOGICAL VALIDATION STUDY

Authors :: Hiroto Tamaru
Tohru Masuyama
Hiroyuki Hao
Tetsuo Horimatsu
Ten Saita
Masaharu Ishihara
Kenji Kawai
Takahiro Imanaka
Akinori Sumiyoshi
Rika Kawakami
Masahiko Shibuya
Seiichi Hirota
Kenichi Fujii
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 67:258
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2016.
Abstract: The histology of peri-strut low intensity areas (PLIA) identified by optical coherence tomography (OCT) is still not well assessed by human autopsy. A total of 15 stents (7 bare-metal stents; BMS, 8 drug-eluting stents; DES) implanted human coronary artery were collected from 5 cadavers. The

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Validation study
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Peri
Autopsy
equipment and supplies
Intensity (physics)
surgical procedures, operative
medicine.anatomical_structure
Optical coherence tomography
Cadaver
medicine
cardiovascular diseases
Radiology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Ex vivo
Artery

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