High-Risk Stents Harboring Neoatherosclerosis: Light From Near-Infrared Spectroscopy?

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Jan;9(1):e004354. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004354.

Author

Farouc A Jaffer¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. fjaffer@mgh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 26729856
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004354

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; acute coronary syndrome; autopsy; drug-eluting stents; macrophages; neoatherosclerosis; restenosis.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Coronary Artery Disease / pathology*
Coronary Restenosis / diagnosis*
Female
Humans
Male
Multimodal Imaging*
Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared*
Stents*
Ultrasonography, Interventional*