Incomplete Neointimal Coverage of Sirolimus-Eluting Stents. Angioscopic Findings

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2108-2111

  Kotani, Jun ichi ^a   Awata, Masaki ^a   Nanto, Shinsuke ^a   Uematsu, Masaaki ^a   Oshima, Fusako ^a   Minamiguchi, Hitoshi ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^b   Nagata, Seiki ^a  

^a KANSAI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; RAPAMYCIN; TICLOPIDINE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIROLIMUS; STENTS; TUNICA INTIMA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646252464     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.11.092     Document Type: Article

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