Long-Term Follow-Up Evaluation After Sirolimus-Eluting Stent Implantation by Optical Coherence Tomography. Do Uncovered Struts Persist?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 968-969

  Takano, Masamichi ^a   Yamamoto, Masanori ^a   Inami, Shigenobu ^a   Murakami, Daisuke ^a   Seimiya, Koji ^a   Ohba, Takayoshi ^a   Seino, Yoshihiko ^a   Mizuno, Kyoichi ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTIMA; LETTER; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOGENICITY; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 39549105785     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.09.070     Document Type: Letter

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