THE EFFECTS OF PREDILATION WITH SCORING BALLOON COMPARED TO CONVENTIONAL BALLOON ON COBALT-CHROMIUM STENT EXPANSION ANALYZED WITH OPTICAL COHERENT TOMOGRAPHY

Authors :: Gaku Nakazawa
Nobuhisa Hagiwara
Ahsung Kim
Yuho Furuki
Kentaro Jujo
Katsumi Saito
Yuki Suzuki
Issei Ishida
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 65(10)
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2015.
Abstract: Stent expansion remains one of important predictors of restenosis and subacute thrombosis, even in use of drug-eluting stent. In addition, the bioresorbable vascular scaffold requires sufficient lesion preparation for their appropriate apposition. The aim of this study was to clarify the impact of

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Cobalt chromium stent
Stent
Scoring balloon
equipment and supplies
medicine.disease
Balloon
Thrombosis
Apposition
surgical procedures, operative
Restenosis
medicine
cardiovascular diseases
Radiology
Tomography
business
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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