title: Bioresorbable vascular scaffold in patients with complex coronary artery disease.
abstract: The advent of fully bioresorbable stent technology is heralded as breakthrough technology in the current era of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS) have the potential to introduce a paradigm shift in interventional cardiology, representing an anatomical and functional "vascular restoration" therapy instead of an artificial stiff tube encased by persistent metallic foreign body. Among BRS, the everolimus-eluting scaffold (ABSORB, Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, CA, USA) has been the most extensively investigated in clinical studies. The use of ABSORB in the treatment of relatively simple lesions appears to provide a similar degree of safety and efficacy compared with metallic drug-eluting stent (DES) treated under randomized trials conditions, but patients treated in real-world practice are far more complex than those included in randomized trials. Therefore, several ABSORB all-comers registries dealing with real world conditions are being performed. Their currently available results are summarized in the present overview.
authors.affiliation: University of Catania, Ferrarotto Hospital, Catania, Italy - claudiatamburino@live.it.
authors.forename: Claudia I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Tamburino
authors.forename: Piera
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Capranzano
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Longo
authors.forename: Sebastiano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Immè
authors.forename: Giacomo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tamburino
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scalia
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Condorelli
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Francaviglia
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: LA Manna
authors.forename: Carmelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sgroi
authors.forename: Carmelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grasso
authors.forename: Maria E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: DI Salvo
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Capodanno
authors.forename: Corrado
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tamburino
mesh_terms: D020341:Absorbable Implants; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds