Monitoring of Coronary Stenting
Coronary stenting is the most common way of treating symptomatic ischaemic cardiopathy and stenosis of venous bypasses. Restenosis actually occurs in 30% of patients treated with non-medicated stents while "drug eluting" stents have reduced the incidence of restenosis by approximately a quarter and have proved particularly effective in diabetic patients and in the treatment of lesions in small vessels1 . The spread of endovasal procedures makes the development of non-invasive methods such as MSCT extremely useful in evaluating the patency of the vessels treated.
Fig. 1a: Stent patent to the proximal segment of the ADA. 3D VR reconstruction (a) shows the position of the stent
This article was first published in the VISIONS, issue 11/2007, a publication of Toshiba Medical Systems
29.08.2007
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