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ABSORV at Long Term in Daily Practice Lesions

This work reports one year outcomes of the BVS Expand registry. Multiple studies have shown the safety...

Optimal Duration of DAPT: How to Predict Long-Term Events

Courtesy of Dr. Santiago F. Coroleu.   Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) with aspirin and clopidogrel after percutaneous coronary intervention...

DES in primary PCI: The Best Option?

Courtesy of Dr. Brian Nazareth Donato.   The relative safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) and conventional bare-metal stents (BMS) in...

BVS: Comparable to Second-Generation DES in Complex Lesions

A center carrying out a mid- to long-term follow-up of the performance of everolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffolds (Absorb)...

DAPT after PCI with EES: 6 or 12 Months?

Original Title: 6-Month versus 12-Month Dual-Antiplatelet Therapy Following Long Everolimus-Eluting Stent Implantation. The IVUS-XPL Randomized Clinical Trial. Reference:...

Tissue Protrusion after DES: Adverse Events at Long Term?

Original Title: Tissue Protrusion after Stent Implantation. An ADAPT-DES Intravascular Ultrasound Substudy. Reference: Fuyu Qiu et al. J...

Stent Fracture: More Frequent than Expected

Original Title:  Incidence and Clinical Outcome of Stent Fractures on the Basis of 6555 Patients and 16482...

Instent restenosis: Drug eluting balloons or drug eluting stents?

Original Title: Long-Term Results of Everolimus-Eluting Stents versus Drug-Eluting Balloons in Patients with Bare-Metal In-Stent Restenosis 3-Year...