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Late incomplete stent apposition and focal vessel expansion after bare metal stenting
Mamoo Nakamura1, Toru Kataoka, Yasuhiro Honda
1Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5637, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|November 12, 2003
Abstract:
Late incomplete stent apposition was observed in 2.4% of the 412 stented segments studied by serial intravascular ultrasound analyses. Most of these phenomena and all late vessel expansions with incomplete stent apposition developed in vessels in which lesions were treated by atherectomy before stenting, suggesting a potential association between mechanical injury from debulking and these phenomena.
