Is the Metallic Stent a Safe Treatment for Bioresorbable Scaffold Failure?: Insights From Optical Coherence Tomography

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 May 9;9(9):976-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.02.031. Epub 2016 Apr 13.

Authors

Piera Capranzano¹, Bruno Francaviglia², Davide Capodanno², Sergio Buccheri², Claudia Ina Tamburino², Giuseppe Gargiulo², Corrado Tamburino²

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Department, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. Electronic address: pcapranzano@gmail.com.
² Cardiovascular Department, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

PMID: 27085571
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.02.031

No abstract available

Keywords: bioresorbable scaffolds; evagination; failure; fracture; metal-in-polymer; positive remodeling; struts apposition.

MeSH terms

Absorbable Implants
Drug-Eluting Stents*
Everolimus
Humans
Prosthesis Design
Stents
Tissue Scaffolds
Tomography, Optical Coherence*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Everolimus