Procedural and one-year clinical outcomes of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds for the treatment of chronic total occlusions: a single-centre experience
CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA, vol.27, no.6, pp.345-349, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 27 Issue: 6
- Publication Date: 2016
- Doi Number: 10.5830/cvja-2016-033
- Journal Name: CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.345-349
- Keywords: bioresorbable vascular scaffold, chronic total occlusion, percutaneous coronary intervention
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Introduction: The bioresorbable vascular scaffold system (BVS) is the latest fully absorbable vascular therapy system that is used to treat coronary artery disease. The BVS has been used in different coronary lesion subsets, such as acute thrombotic lesions, bifurcation lesions, ostial lesions and lesions originating from bypass grafts. However, data about the use of BVS in chronic total occlusions (CTO) are limited. We report our BVS experience for the treatment of CTOs in terms of procedural features and one-year clinical follow-up results.