TY - JOUR
T1 - Neointimal Coverage on Drug-Eluting Stent Struts Crossing Side-Branch Vessels Using Optical Coherence Tomography
AU - Her, Ae Young
AU - Lee, Byoung Kwon
AU - Shim, Jae Min
AU - Kim, Jung Sun
AU - Kim, Byoung Keuk
AU - Ko, Young Guk
AU - Choi, Donghoon
AU - Jang, Yangsoo
AU - Hong, Myeong Ki
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partly supported by grants A085012 and A000385 from the Korea Healthcare Technology R&D Project , Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, Republic of Korea, grant A085136 from the Korea Health 21 R&D Project , Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea, and the Cardiovascular Research Center, Seoul, Korea. Coronary artery disease
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - The status of neointimal coverage on the drug-eluting stent (DES) struts, which are placed across the side-branch vessels, remains unclear. The degree of neointimal coverage of stent struts crossing the side-branch vessel was evaluated according to the different types of DESs. Follow-up optical coherence tomography images at 9.3 months after the index procedure were identified in 51 patients who had undergone DES (sirolimus-eluting stents [SESs] in 22 patients, paclitaxel-eluting stents [PESs] in 15, and zotarolimus-eluting stents [ZESs] in 14) implantation with crossover of the side-branch vessels (size >2.0 mm). The enrolled patients were classified as a covered group if every unapposed strut showed neointimal coverage or an uncovered group if any struts lacked neointimal coverage. The neointimal hyperplasia thickness was also measured. The number of patients in the covered group was 15 (29%), with 36 patients in the uncovered group. Significant differences were found in the proportion of the covered group among the 3 DES types (6 [27%] of 22 with SESs, 1 [7%] of 15 with PESs, and 8 [57%] of 14 with ZESs; p = 0.011). The percentage of neointimal coverage in the overall stent struts was also significantly different among the 3 DES types (65% of 356 struts, 20% of 165 struts, and 83% of 143 struts for the SESs, PESs, and ZESs, respectively; p<0.001). The neointimal hyperplasia thickness in the PES group was significantly smaller than those of the ZES and SES groups (0.02 ± 0.02 mm vs 0.08 ± 0.06 mm and 0.04 ± 0.03 mm, respectively; p = 0.002). In conclusion, different patterns of neointimal coverage of the stent struts crossing the side branch vessels were observed according to the type of DES.
AB - The status of neointimal coverage on the drug-eluting stent (DES) struts, which are placed across the side-branch vessels, remains unclear. The degree of neointimal coverage of stent struts crossing the side-branch vessel was evaluated according to the different types of DESs. Follow-up optical coherence tomography images at 9.3 months after the index procedure were identified in 51 patients who had undergone DES (sirolimus-eluting stents [SESs] in 22 patients, paclitaxel-eluting stents [PESs] in 15, and zotarolimus-eluting stents [ZESs] in 14) implantation with crossover of the side-branch vessels (size >2.0 mm). The enrolled patients were classified as a covered group if every unapposed strut showed neointimal coverage or an uncovered group if any struts lacked neointimal coverage. The neointimal hyperplasia thickness was also measured. The number of patients in the covered group was 15 (29%), with 36 patients in the uncovered group. Significant differences were found in the proportion of the covered group among the 3 DES types (6 [27%] of 22 with SESs, 1 [7%] of 15 with PESs, and 8 [57%] of 14 with ZESs; p = 0.011). The percentage of neointimal coverage in the overall stent struts was also significantly different among the 3 DES types (65% of 356 struts, 20% of 165 struts, and 83% of 143 struts for the SESs, PESs, and ZESs, respectively; p<0.001). The neointimal hyperplasia thickness in the PES group was significantly smaller than those of the ZES and SES groups (0.02 ± 0.02 mm vs 0.08 ± 0.06 mm and 0.04 ± 0.03 mm, respectively; p = 0.002). In conclusion, different patterns of neointimal coverage of the stent struts crossing the side branch vessels were observed according to the type of DES.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.01.013
DO - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.01.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 20494663
AN - SCOPUS:77952428467
VL - 105
SP - 1565
EP - 1569
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
SN - 0002-9149
IS - 11
ER -