Predictors for Neoatherosclerosis

Predictors for neoatherosclerosis: a retrospective observational study from the optical coherence tomography registry.

BACKGROUND Recent studies have reported development of neoatherosclerosis (NA) inside the stents several years after stent implantation. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors for NA using optical coherence tomography. METHODS AND RESULTS From a total of 1080 patients who underwent optical coherence tomography, we identified 179 stents in 151 patients in which the mean neointim...

Neoatherosclerosis: fooling mother nature.

Atherosclerosis, neoatherosclerosis, and vascular disease.

Geoffrey Rose (1926–1993) pioneered the concept that, to reduce the burden of disease, improving the population distribution of a risk factor was preferable to interventions that target high-risk individuals. This strategy has become commonplace today and the basis of many guidelines. – 4 To strengthen this approach, the European Society of Cardiology has thus established the Geoffrey Rose Lect...

Neoatherosclerosis Within the Implanted Stent

Although it is generally recognized that the long-term clinical outcome of bare-metal stents (BMS) is favorable, a late luminal narrowing with restenosis of BMS can occur during the extended follow-up (beyond 5 years), resulting in clinical events such as stent thrombosis and myocardial infarction. Regarding the mechanisms of progressive late luminal renarrowing, a persistent and remarkable for...

Neoatherosclerosis after paclitaxel-coated balloon angioplasty for in-stent restenosis.

I n-stent neoatherosclerosis (NA) has been reported after drug-eluting stent (DES) and bare-metal stent implanta-tion. 1 NA is not only more frequent but also occurs earlier in patients undergoing DES implantation compared with those treated with bare-metal stents. 1 This phenomenon has major potential implications because complicated NA (mainly from rupture of a thin-cap fibroatheroma) may res...