Bioresorbable Scaffolds in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Long-Term Follow-Up in 4 Patients
Publication Date
12-1-2017
Journal
The Texas Heart Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-16-6059
PMID
29276441
Publication Date(s)
December 2017
Language
English
PMCID
PMC5737153
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
12-19-2017
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
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Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Absorbable implants, aneurysm, dissecting/diagnosis, blood vessel prosthesis, coronary vessels/diagnostic imaging/pathology, multimodal imaging/methods, percutaneous coronary intervention/instrumentation, rupture, spontaneous, tissue scaffolds, treatment outcome, vascular diseases/therapy
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare condition, and diagnosis and treatment are challenging among patients who present with acute coronary syndrome. Typically, the condition affects young females who have no underlying atherosclerotic disease. To date, few cases of bioresorbable scaffold implantation for the treatment of spontaneous coronary artery dissection have been reported. Therefore, we describe the cases of 4 patients whom we treated with scaffolds. We evaluated the long-term results by using intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomographic scanning.