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From: Plaque burden is associated with minimal intimal coverage following drug-eluting stent implantation in an adult familial hypercholesterolemia swine model

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Relation between pre-existing plaque burden and pattern of strut coverage at follow-up as evaluated by OCT. Top: OCT frames showing an artery with low pre-implant plaque burden (a) and the same artery at follow-up (b), showing a homogeneous neointima (NI) (close-up in c). Middle: OCT frames showing an artery with higher pre-implant plaque burden (d) and the same artery at follow-up (e), showing crenellated NI (close-up in f). Bottom: quantitative relation between pre-existing plaque burden and percentage crenellated NI at follow-up (g). The red rimmed dots designate the arteries shown in (a) and (d). While we present the data as a single data set based on insignificant differences between the two stent types, full data including stent type are presented in Supplementary Fig. S3 for completeness.

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