PROCEDURAL CALCIUM FRACTURE AND ITS EFFECT ON STENT EXPANSION ASSESSED BY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

Akiko Fujino,Gary S. Mintz,Kohei Koyama,Mitsuaki Matsumura,Myong Hwa Yamamoto,Dragos Alexandru,Joan Jennings,Patricia Krug,Lyn Santiago,Meghan Murray,Linda Bongiovanni,Fernando Sosa,Elizabeth Haag,Richard Shlofmitz,Akiko Maehara

PROCEDURAL CALCIUM FRACTURE AND ITS EFFECT ON STENT EXPANSION ASSESSED BY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

2017

Akiko Fujino
Gary S. Mintz
Kohei Koyama
Mitsuaki Matsumura
Myong Hwa Yamamoto
Dragos Alexandru
Joan Jennings
Patricia Krug
Lyn Santiago
Meghan Murray
Linda Bongiovanni
Fernando Sosa
Elizabeth Haag
Richard Shlofmitz
Akiko Maehara

Background: Severe coronary calcium (Ca) may limit stent expansion. We hypothesized that Ca fracture during stent implantation may mitigate its impact. Methods: Pre-intervention and final optical coherence tomography (OCT) were performed in 196 pts. Maximum superficial Ca angle and minimum Ca

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Calcium
Medical physics
Radiology
Medicine
Optical coherence tomography
Stent
coronary calcium
stent implantation

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