title: "Virtual" in-vivo bench test for bifurcation stenting with "StentBoost".
abstract: "StentBoost" is a new angiographic technique that allows improved angiographic visualization of stents deployed in coronary arteries, by enhancing the X-ray focus of the region where the stent is placed. Using this technique we were able to assess the deformation and the expansion of a stent deployed to treat a bifurcation lesion between the mid-left anterior descending (LAD) artery and a big second diagonal branch, during sequential inflations of: (1) the stent per se in the LAD, (2) the ostium of the diagonal branch through the stent struts, (3) the stent again with a non compliant balloon, and (4) both branches with the kissing balloon technique. "StentBoost" guided our clinical and angiographic decision-making process and allowed us to create a "virtual" bench test of the stent deployed at the level of the bifurcation treated.
authors.forename: Pierfrancesco
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Agostoni
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verheye
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vermeersch
authors.forename: Kristoff
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cornelis
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van Langenhove
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents