Chronic Arterial Responses to Overlapping Paclitaxel-Eluting StentsInsights From Serial Intravascular Ultrasound Analyses in the TAXUS-V and -VI Trials
Jiro Aoki, MD, PhD*,
Gary S. Mintz, MD, FACC*,*,
Neil J. Weissman, MD, FACC ,
J. Tift Mann, MD, FACC ,
Louis Cannon, MD, FACC ,
Joel Greenberg, MD, FACC||,
Eberhard Grube, MD, FACC¶,
A.R. Zaki Masud, MD, FACC#,
Joerg Koglin, MD**,
Lazar Mandinov, MD, PhD**,
Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC*
* Columbia University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Wake Heart Research, Raleigh, North Carolina
Cardiac & Vascular Research Center of Northern Michigan, Petoskey, Michigan
|| Florida Heart Institute, Orlando, Florida
¶ Helios Klinikum, Siegburg, Germany
# Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, New York
** Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Massachusetts.

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Figure 1 Three Regions in the Overlapping Stented Lesion
The stented lesion was divided into 3 regions (proximal single stent layer, middle overlapping double stent layers, and distal single stent layer).
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