Kallinikou, Zacharenia Arroyo, Diego Togni, Mario Lehmann, Sonja Corpataux, Noé Cook, Malica Müller, Olivier Baeriswyl, Gérard Stauffer, Jean-Christophe Goy, Jean-Jacques Puricel, Serban Cook, Stéphane 2016-01-14 QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: Head-to-head optical coherence tomography (OCT) data comparing metallic stents with bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) are lacking. This study assessed vascular healing at 9-month follow-up after implantation of everolimus- and biolimus-eluting stents (EES BES) and everolimus-eluting BVS.METHODS: OCT was performed in 74 patients enrolled in the EVERBIO II (NCT01711931) trial (23 with EES: 26 lesions, 7 625 struts; 23 with BES: 26 lesions, 6 140 struts; 28 with BVS: 33 lesions, 10 891 struts). OCT images were acquired using the pullback and nonocclusive flushing technique and analysed offline.RESULTS: BVS demonstrated fewer uncovered struts per patient (12 ± 27 [3.8 ± 8.4%] vs 59 ± 55 [21.8 ± 13.7%] in the EES and BES group, p <0.001), and thicker neointimal hyperplasia (BVS 102 ± 44 µm vs EES and BES 66 ± 36 µm, p <0.01). There was no significant difference with regard to malapposed struts (2.1 ± 2.7% in the BVS vs 4.4 ± 8.8% in the EES and BES group, p = 0.41). In a predefined signal intensity scale, quantitative analysis of the “key component” (black) revealed lower intensity in BVS than EES and BES (14 ± 23% vs 13 ± 12%, p = 0.007). Intensity was lower in polylactide-containing stents (BVS and BES) than in EES (15 ± 19% vs 10 ± 10%, p <0.001). CONCLUSIONS: BVS has fewer uncovered struts and presents with a thicker neointimal coverage compared with EES and BES. It is not known whether this improved capping correlates with superior vascular healing. Polylactide-containing stents (BVS and BES) demonstrate lower peristrut intensity compared with EES. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/304615 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/304615/files/tog_vre.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4414/smw.2016.14274 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Swiss Medical Weekly. - 2016, vol. 146, no. 0102, p. w14274 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/61 Vascular response to everolimus- and biolimus-eluting coronary stents versus everolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffolds – an optical coherence tomography substudy of the EVERBIO II trial http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501