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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Mar 15;57(11):1314–1322. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.01.011

Table 4.

Ten Patients with Thin-cap Fibroatheroma or Plaque Rupture within Neointima Following Stent Implantation

Case Age,
Sex		 Stent type Location Number
of stent		 Stent
length,
mm		 Indication
for
implantation		 Duration
of implant,
months		 Cause of
death		 Representative images
Thin-cap fibroatheroma
1 58
M		 BMS (NIR) LAD prox 1 18 SAP 61 Non-cardiac graphic file with name nihms283817t1.jpg
2 63
M		 BMS (MULTI-LINK) RCA mid 1 18 SAP 98 Non-stent related cardiac graphic file with name nihms283817t2.jpg
3 73
M		 BMS (Bx VELOCITY) RI prox 1 16 SAP 50 Non-cardiac graphic file with name nihms283817t3.jpg
4 40
F		 DES (SES) RCA prox 1 23 AMI 17 Stent related (thrombosis) graphic file with name nihms283817t4.jpg
5 67
M		 DES (SES) RCA prox 1 13 SAP 13 Non-stent related cardiac graphic file with name nihms283817t5.jpg
Plaque rupture
6 43
M		 BMS (MINI-CROWN) LAD prox 1 14 SAP 84 Stent related (thrombosis) graphic file with name nihms283817t6.jpg
7 87
F		 BMS (2 AVE) RCA prox 2 60 SAP 61 Stent related (thrombosis) graphic file with name nihms283817t7.jpg
8 47
M		 BMS (3 Gianturco-Roubin II) RCA prox 3 90 SAP 96 Stent related (thrombosis) graphic file with name nihms283817t8.jpg
9 43
M		 BMS (5 MULTI-LINK ZETA) RCA prox-dist 5 70 SAP 61 Stent related (thrombosis) graphic file with name nihms283817t9.jpg
10 59
M		 DES (SES) RCA dist 1 23 AMI 23 Stent related (thrombosis) graphic file with name nihms283817t10.jpg

AMI = acute myocardial infarction, BMS = bare metal stents, DES = drug-eluting stents, LAD = left anterior descending artery, RCA = right coronary artery, RI = ramus intermedius, SAP = stable angina pectoris, SES = sirolimus-eluting stents