Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Takanori Yamazaki, Hisako Yoshida, Kotaro Matsumoto, Ryosuke Yahiro, Kazuhiro Nakao, Yusuke Kure, Tsukasa Okai, Takenobu Shimada, Kenichiro Otsuka, Yasuhiro Izumiya, Daiju Fukuda
Histopathological examination has revealed that stents on severely calcified plaques were associated with delayed vascular healing. Although atherectomy devices can increase the number of malapposed struts, tissue responses to implanted drug eluting stents in atherectomy patients remain largely unknown. This retrospective observational study included 30 patients who underwent atherectomy and everolimus-eluting stent (EES) deployment for severely calcified coronary lesions (biodegradable polymer EES (BP-EES), n = 15; durable polymer EES (DP-EES), n = 15)...
October 20, 2023: Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics