Serial optical coherence tomography imaging of the "black-hole" phenomenon by intravascular ultrasound following sirolimus-eluting stent implantation

EuroIntervention

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1480-1481

  Kurita, Tairo ^a   Terashima, Mitsuyasu ^a   Suzuki, Takahiko ^a  

^a Toyohashi Heart Center Toyohashi   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CASE REPORT; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIROLIMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84860761408     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV7I12A232     Document Type: Article

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