Short- and long-term implications of a bioresorbable vascular scaffold implantation on the local endothelial shear stress patterns

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Jan;7(1):100-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2013.01.139.

Affiliations

¹ ThoraxCenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
² Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
⁵ ThoraxCenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: p.w.j.c.serruys@erasmusmc.nl.

PMID: 24456718
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2013.01.139

No abstract available

Keywords: bioresorbable scaffolds; endothelial shear stress; optical coherence tomography.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Absorbable Implants*
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / instrumentation*
Computer Simulation
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Artery Disease / diagnosis
Coronary Artery Disease / physiopathology
Coronary Artery Disease / surgery*
Coronary Circulation*
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Vessels / pathology
Coronary Vessels / physiopathology
Coronary Vessels / surgery*
Endothelium, Vascular / pathology
Endothelium, Vascular / physiopathology*
Humans
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
Male
Middle Aged
Multimodal Imaging / methods
Plaque, Atherosclerotic
Prosthesis Design
Stress, Mechanical
Time Factors
Tissue Scaffolds*
Tomography, Optical Coherence
Treatment Outcome