Very Late Stent Thrombosis 5 Years After Implantation of a Sirolimus-Eluting Stent Observed by Angioscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography

Abstract

Drug-eluting stents have dramatically reduced the rate of in-stent restenosis ([1][1]). However, very late stent thrombosis (VLST) is one of the clinical issues with regard to the safety of drug-eluting stents ([2,3][2]). To date there are no articles that report VLST evaluated by both angioscopy