Long-term coronary arterial response to biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting stents in comparison with durable polymer sirolimus-eluting stents and bare-metal stents: Five- year follow-up optical coherence tomography study Shoichi Kuramitsu, Shinjo Sonoda, Hiroyoshi Yokoi, Masashi Iwabuchi, Yuji Nishizaki, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Takenori Domei, Makoto Hyodo, Katsumi Inoue, Shinichi Shirai, Kenji Ando, Masakiyo Nobuyoshi Atherosclerosis Volume 237, Issue 1, Pages 23-29 (November 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.08.031 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Representative optical coherence tomographic images of biolimus-eluting stent at 5-year after implantation (A–F) and multiple interstrut hollow after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation (G and H). Image shown are (A) homogeneous neointima, (B) heterogeneous neointima with neovascularization (arrows), (C) lipid-laden neointima (red arrowheads), (D) in-stent thrombus (blue arrowhead), (E) uncovered struts with well apposition (arrowheads), (F) malapposed struts with neointima, (G) multiple interstrut hollow (yellow arrow), and (H) measurement of multiple interstrut hollow. Atherosclerosis 2014 237, 23-29DOI: (10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.08.031) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions