Abstract:Several clinical trials have found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using drug-eluting stents (DESs) drastically improve the clinical outcome 1,2) . However, the development of neoatherosclerosis (NA) after DES implantation has been a recent clinical problem in PCI, even when using second-or third-generation DESs [3][4][5] . Several clinical trials have reported predictors for the late development of NA after stent implantation 6) . However, predictors for the early development of NA with second-a… Show more
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