One-year clinical and computed tomography follow-up after implantation of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds in patients with coronary chronic total occlusions.
Joren MaeremansDavid VerhaertBruno PereiraPeter FrambachCarlos Van MieghemEmanuele BarbatoEndry WillemsMathias VrolixJo DensPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2017)
The low number of events and high patency rate at 1 year are encouraging the further use of the ABSORB scaffold for CTOs with low J-CTO score. Noninvasive MSCT angiography is a valid tool to assess scaffold patency, although its image resolution limits the use for quantitative measurements.