Journal article
Comparison between the first and second generation bioresorbable vascular scaffolds: a six month virtual histology study.
Salvatore Brugaletta, Hector M Garcia-Garcia, Roberto Diletti, Josep Gomez-Lara, Scot Garg, Yoshinobu Onuma, Eun-Seok Shin, Robert Jan van Geuns, Bernard de Bruyne, Dariusz Dudek, Leif Thuesen, Bernard Chevalier, Dougal McClean, Stephan Windecker, Robert Whitbourn, Cecile Dorange, Susan Veldhof, Richard Rapoza, Krishnankutty Sudhir, Nico Bruining Show all
EuroIntervention | Published : 2011
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV6I9A193
Abstract
AIMS: To compare the intravascular ultrasound virtual histology (IVUS-VH) appearance of the polymeric struts of the first (Revision 1.0) and the second (Revision 1.1) generation bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS). METHODS AND RESULTS: IVUS-VH misrepresents polymeric struts as dense calcium (DC) and necrotic core (NC) so that their presence and disappearance could be used as potential artifactual surrogate of bioresorption. DC and NC were assessed in both revisions of the BVS by analysing IVUS-VH from all patients in the ABSORB cohort A (Revision 1.0) and cohort B (Revision 1.1) study who had an IVUS-VH post-treatment and at 6-month follow-up. Post-treatment and 6-month follow-up IVUS-VH r..
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