Long-term clinical outcomes of late stent malapposition (lsm) detected by optical coherence tomography (oct) were evaluated in a total of 428 patients who were selected from previous randomized oct studies.These patients were assigned to one of two groups based on the presence (n = 136) or absence (n = 292) of lsm on follow-up oct images.123 endeavor resolute drug eluting stents were among a number of des implanted.Post implantation 32 endeavour resolute des devices were found to have late stent malapposition.The left anterior descending artery was the only lesional characteristic reported.Follow-up oct was performed post-intervention.Clinical events included target vessel-related myocardial infarction, target vessel r evascularization, target lesion-related myocardial infarction, target lesion revascularization.It was noted that the presence of oct-detected lsm was not associated with adverse clinical events.
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