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Trial reportCardiovascular ultrasound2013

Assessment of plaque evolution in coronary bifurcations located beyond everolimus eluting scaffolds: serial intravascular ultrasound virtual histology study.

Il Soo Lee, Christos V Bourantas, Takashi Muramatsu, Bill D Gogas, Jung Ho Heo, Roberto Diletti, Vasim Farooq, Yaojun Zhang, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W Serruys and 1 more

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Trial report in Cardiovascular ultrasound, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Imaging strategies for tissue engineering applications.Tissue engineering. Part B, Reviews · 2015
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  5. Emerging Imaging Modalities in Regenerative Medicine.Current pathobiology reports · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Il Soo LeeThoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Christos V Bourantas
Takashi Muramatsu
Bill D Gogas
Jung Ho Heo
Roberto Diletti
Vasim Farooq
Yaojun Zhang
Yoshinobu Onuma
Patrick W Serruys
Hector M Garcia-Garcia
Erasmus University Rotterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo evaluate the atherosclerotic evolution in coronary bifurcations located proximally and distally to a bioresorbable scaffold.

methodsThirty bifurcations located >5 mm beyond the scaffolded segment, being investigated with serial intravascular ultrasound virtual histology (IVUS-VH) examinations, at baseline and 2-years, in patients enrolled in the ABSORB cohort B1 study were included in this analysis. In each bifurcation, the frames portraying the proximal rim, in-bifurcation, and distal rim of the ostium of the side branch were analyzed. The geometric parameters and plaque types were evaluated at baseline and 2-years follow-up.

resultsThere were no significant differences in the geometrical parameters such as lumen, vessel and plaque areas as well as in the composition of the atheroma between baseline and 2-years follow-up.When we separately examined the bifurcations located proximally and distally to the scaffolded segment, no changes were found at the distal bifurcations, while at the proximal bifurcations there was a statistical significant decrease in the plaque burden (36.67 ± 13.33% at baseline vs. 35.06 ± 13.20% at 2 years follow-up, p = 0.04).Ten necrotic core rich plaques were found at baseline, of which 2 regressed to either fibrotic plaque or to intimal thickening at 2 years follow-up. The other 8 did not change. Disease progression was noted in 3 plaques (1 adaptive intimal thickening, 1 fibrotic and 1 fibrocalcific plaque) that evolved to necrotic rich plaques.

conclusionsPlaque regression was noted at the bifurcations located proximally to the bioresorbable scaffold but not at these located distally. Additional studies are required to confirm this finding and examine further the effect of drug elution on atherosclerotic evolution.

Indexed as

Drug-Eluting StentsAgedCoronary Artery DiseaseCoronary StenosisCoronary VesselsEchocardiographyEverolimusFemaleHumansImage EnhancementImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedImmunosuppressive AgentsMaleReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySirolimusEverolimusImmunosuppressive AgentsSirolimus

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PMID23870248
PMCPMC3722121
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