Fumiyuki Otsuka

1 week ago | octnews.org | Robert Byrne |Fumiyuki Otsuka |Kazuhiro Nakao |Masashi Fujino

August 23, 2015 | CardiologyIn-stent neoatherosclerosis has become the darling of the interventional cardiology community and is blamed for most stent thrombosis (ST) occurring late after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. Neoatherosclerosis accounted for only 33% of late and very late ST at autopsy following implantation of first-generation DES. 1 However, the clinical prevalence of neoatherosclerosis and its percentage of cases presenting with late and very late ST remains unknown.