Effect of Plaque Composition, Morphology, and Burden on DESolve Novolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Expansion and Eccentricity — An Optical Coherence Tomography Analysis
Highlights
- • First OCT study to investigate the impact of plaque composition, morphology, and burden on acute mechanical performance and short-term outcome in patients who were treated with DESolve® BRS
- • Longitudinal cross-sections were analysed at 200 μm intervals
- • In contrast to previously studied BRS, the expansion and eccentricity characteristics of the novolimus-eluting scaffold did not show the strong dependency of plaque composition, morphology, and burden
Abstract
Objective
This study of patients treated with novolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold (BRS) investigated the impact of plaque burden on the acute mechanical performance of the BRS and the short-term outcome.