A case of lipid core plaque progression and rupture at the edge of a coronary stent elucidating the mechanisms of drug-eluting stent failure

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-196

  Waxman, Sergio ^a,b   Freilich, Mark I ^b   Suter, Melissa J ^c,d   Shishkov, Milen ^c,d   Bilazarian, Seth ^b   Virmani, Renu ^h   Bouma, Brett E ^c,d,g   Tearney, Gary J ^c,e,f,g  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Wellman Center for Photomedicine   (United States)

^d Department of Dermatology ^*  (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; RAPAMYCIN;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENT THROMBOSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIROLIMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 77952867434     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.109.917955     Document Type: Article

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