From metallic cages to transient bioresorbable scaffolds: change in paradigm of coronary revascularization in the upcoming decade?
Open Access
- 31 October 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal
- Vol. 33 (1), 16-25
- https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehr384
Abstract
Drug-eluting bioresorbable scaffolds (BRSs) may in the near future change drastically the landscape of percutaneous coronary revascularization.1 In 1977, when Andreas Gruentzig introduced the concept of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, the most feared enemy of the operators was acute occlusion of the dilated lesion due to a combination of elastic recoil and intimal and medial dissection, sometimes aggravated by intraparietal haematoma (Figure 1).2 Surgical standby was a sine qua non condition for the safe performance of the percutaneous treatment. At short term, proliferative neointima and constrictive remodelling could dissipate the transient benefit of the therapeutic dilatation of the stenosis. However, in the case of favourable healing following the barotrauma, late lumen enlargement, plaque regression, and vessel remodelling could occur and be modulated by change in life style, preventive medicine, and pharmacological anti-atherosclerotic agents.3This publication has 62 references indexed in Scilit:
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