Background Drug eluting balloon (DEB) is a new therapeutic option for treatment of obstructive coronary lesions in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). There is limited data on the safety and efficacy of DEB in Asian patients in contemporary clinical registries. We evaluated the clinical efficacy and safety of SeQuent Please paclitaxel-eluting balloon in our cohort of South-East Asian pati...

Refer to the page 774-783 Patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) often have multiple non-culprit lesions in addition to culprit lesion. Previous studies suggest that performing " one-time " interventions to non-culprit lesions of multivessel NSTE-ACS patients improve clinical outcomes as compared to culprit-only intervention. 3)4) Shishehbor et al. 3) reported...

AIMS The TWENTE trial recently enrolled more than 80% of all eligible patients, who were randomised to zotarolimus-eluting Resolute or everolimus-eluting XIENCE V stents. In the present study, we investigated whether eligible, non-enrolled patients differed from the randomised TWENTE trial population in baseline characteristics and one-year outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS Characteristics of 1,70...

OBJECTIVES Our main objective was to evaluate the longer-term safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DES) in off-label indications as compared with bare-metal stents (BMS). BACKGROUND DES are frequently implanted in patients with off-label indications. However, the longer-term safety and effectiveness of DES among patients with off-label indications are not well understood. METHODS Pro...

Introduction. Many clinical applications, most notably contrast-enhanced (CE) time-resolved angiographic imaging, would benefit from volumetric coverage with high spatial and temporal resolution to capture the rapid passage of contrast material. For many applications such as intracranial examinations, these requirements necessitate data undersampling by as much as 40-100 times in 2D. Image reco...

In this thesis we develop a new goal function approach to investigate stability of the growth processes in blood vessels and cost-optimal composition and geometry of these vessels. In the vascular system of a healthy individual, the living composition of the arterial wall must regenerate and remodel continuously during the entire lifetime to maintain itself. In some cases the system destabilize...

BACKGROUND Administration of growth factors has been associated with increased viability of composite grafts greater than 1-cm in diameter. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) contains many of the growth factors studied. In this study, we evaluate the effect of PRP injection on composite graft viability and the proper time for injection. METHODS A total of 24 New Zealand White rabbits were divided int...

shrink fit process is a useful technique in order to introduce beneficial residual stress in compound pressure vessels. in this paper, the effects of geometrical tolerances on residual stresses have been studied for a compound shrink fitted pressure vessel, practically. three layers, which are designed based on an optimum nominal thickness and overlap dimensions and tolerances, have been fitted...

INTRODUCTION In time-resolved MRI, there is a trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution due to requirement of the Nyquist theorem. Previously, we described a time-resolved hybrid radial/Cartesian acquisition, PR-TRICKS [1], which combines in-plane radially undersampled acquisition with through-plane Cartesian TRICKS acquisition to provide large undersampling factors. We have recently de...