Serial intravascular ultrasound and quantitative coronary angiography after self-expandable wallstent coronary artery implantation.
Serial intracoronary ultrasound studies revealed significant postprocedural stent expansion accompanied by significant stent shortening during long-term follow-up. The disadvantageous lumen loss by neointimal formation could be balanced by late stent expansion.
König
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Department of Internal Medicine, Klinikum Innenstadt, University of Munich, Germany.
Klauss
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Regar
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Rieber
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Casella
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Theisen
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Mudra
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D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011336:Probability; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D015607:Stents; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional