The invisible scaffold…with invisible benefits?

Authors suggest the use of an investigator-owned and directed, prospective, non-randomized, single-arm multicenter registry at 23 Italian hospitals to follow 500 STEMI patients who receive BVS. Follow-up of patients is out to 5 years to determine how a BVS which has been deployed according to the IFU performs in these ACS patients. There is no comparator arm. Mandate that patients included in this registry follow a strict BVS implantation protocol which is felt to mitigate the not insignificant stent thrombosis rates noted with BVS to date.