Provisional T-stenting with bioresorbable vascular scaffolds in vivo: insights from optical frequency domain imaging

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 Apr 20;8(4):635-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.12.234. Epub 2015 Mar 26.

Authors

Toru Naganuma¹, Hisaaki Ishiguro², Kensuke Takagi², Yusuke Fujino², Satoru Mitomo², Shotaro Nakamura², Sunao Nakamura², Antonio Colombo³

Affiliations

¹ Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy; Interventional Cardiology Unit, New Tokyo Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
² Interventional Cardiology Unit, New Tokyo Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
³ Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: info@emocolumbus.it.

PMID: 25819186
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.12.234

No abstract available

Keywords: bifurcation; bioresorbable vascular scaffold; optical frequency domain imaging; provisional T-stenting.

MeSH terms

Absorbable Implants*
Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / instrumentation*
Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / methods
Animals
Coronary Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Stenosis / therapy
Models, Cardiovascular
Prosthesis Design
Radiography
Sensitivity and Specificity
Stents*
Tissue Scaffolds*
Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*