Impact of strut thickness on late luminal loss after coronary artery stent placement

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Abstract

To determine the influence of coronary artery stent strut thickness on angiographic late luminal loss, 663 patients were included in a single-center observational cohort after receiving an ACS Multilink stent in a native coronary vessel. At 6- to 10-month follow-up, 287 patients treated with a thin-strut stent (50 μm) had significantly less late luminal loss than 376 patients treated with a thick-strut stent (≥90 μm) (mean 0.92 ± 0.59 vs 1.06 ± 0.71 mm, p = 0.011); on multivariate regression analysis, strut thickness was found to be an independent predictor for late luminal loss.

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We are very grateful to the nursing staff of the catheterization laboratory of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (especially to Reina Geuzebroek, Hetty Eckmann, and Martin Meesterman) for their skillful help in organizing this study and the collection of data, to the cardiologists of the referring hospitals (Flevo Hospital, Almere; Westfries Gasthuis, Hoorn; Gooi-Noord Hospital, Blaricum; the Hospitals of Amstelveen and Hilversum, Gemini Hospital, Den Helder; Boven Y

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