Does Asymmetric Expansion of Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds Cause Stent Failure?

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¹ Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Electronic address: mkhong61@yuhs.ac.
² Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

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Myeong-Ki Hong et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016.

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. 2016 Jun 27;9(12):1243-1245.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.04.026. Epub 2016 Jun 1.

¹ Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Electronic address: mkhong61@yuhs.ac.
² Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea; Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

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Keywords: asymmetric stent expansion; bioresorbable vascular scaffold; optical coherence tomography.

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