Pal N, Din J, O’Kane P (2019) Contemporary management of stent failure: part one. Interv Cardiol 14:10–16

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Niccoli G, Belloni F, Cosentino N, Fracassi F, Falcioni E, Roberto M et al (2013) Case-control registry of excimer laser coronary angioplasty versus distal protection devices in patients with acute coronary syndromes due to saphenous vein graft disease. Am J Cardiol 112:1586–1591

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Fernandez JP, Hobson AR, McKenzie D, Shah N, Sinha MK, Wells TA et al (2013) Beyond the balloon: excimer coronary laser atherectomy used alone or in combination with rotational atherectomy in the treatment of chronic total occlusions, non-crossable and non-expansible coronary lesions. EuroIntervention 9:243–250

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Topaz O, Minisi AJ, Bernardo NL, McPherson RA, Martin E, Carr SL et al (2001) Alterations of platelet aggregation kinetics with ultraviolet laser emission: the stunned platelet phenomenon. Thromb Haemost 86:1087–1093

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Karacsonyi J, Armstrong EJ, Truong HTD, Tsuda R, Kokkinidis DG, Martinez-Parachini JR et al (2018) Contemporary use of laser during percutaneous coronary interventions: insights from the laser veterans affairs (LAVA) multicenter registry. J Invasive Cardiol 30:195–201

PubMed  Google Scholar 

Nishino M, Mori N, Takiuchi S, Shishikura D, Doi N, Kataoka T et al (2017) Indications and outcomes of excimer laser coronary atherectomy: efficacy and safety for thrombotic lesions-the ULTRAMAN registry. J Cardiol 69:314–319

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ambrosini V, Sorropago G, Laurenzano E, Golino L, Casafina A, Schiano V et al (2015) Early outcome of high energy laser (Excimer) facilitated coronary angioplasty ON hARD and complex calcified and balloOn-resistant coronary lesions: LEONARDO study. Cardiovasc Revasc Med 16:141–146

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Protty MB, Hussain HI, Gallagher S, Al-Raisi S, Aldalati O, Farooq V et al (2021) Excimer laser coronary atherectomy during complex PCI: an analysis of 1,471 laser cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 97:e653–e660

PubMed  Google Scholar 

Baumbach A, Bittl JA, Fleck E, Geschwind HJ, Sanborn TA, Tcheng JE et al (1994) Acute complications of excimer laser coronary angioplasty: a detailed analysis of multicenter results. Coinvestigators of the U.S. and European percutaneous excimer laser coronary angioplasty (PELCA) registries. J Am Coll Cardiol 23:1305–1313

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Nakano T, Ikenaga H, Takeda A, Morita Y, Higashihara T, Watanabe N et al (2023) Relationship between attenuated plaque identified by intravascular ultrasound and thrombus formation after excimer laser coronary angioplasty. Cardiovasc Revasc Med 49:15–21

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Otsuka F, Byrne RA, Yahagi K, Mori H, Ladich E, Fowler DR et al (2015) Neoatherosclerosis: overview of histopathologic findings and implications for intravascular imaging assessment. Eur Heart J 36:2147–2159

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Jang IK, Tearney GJ, MacNeill B, Takano M, Moselewski F, Iftima N et al (2005) In vivo characterization of coronary atherosclerotic plaque by use of optical coherence tomography. Circulation 111:1551–1555

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Lee SY, Mintz GS, Kim SY, Hong YJ, Kim SW, Okabe T et al (2009) Attenuated plaque detected by intravascular ultrasound: clinical, angiographic, and morphologic features and post-percutaneous coronary intervention complications in patients with acute coronary syndromes. JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2:65–72

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Kubo T, Imanishi T, Takarada S, Kuroi A, Ueno S, Yamano T et al (2007) Assessment of culprit lesion morphology in acute myocardial infarction: ability of optical coherence tomography compared with intravascular ultrasound and coronary angioscopy. J Am Coll Cardiol 50:933–939

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Topaz O, Lippincott R, Bellendir J, Taylor K, Reiser C (2001) Optimally spaced excimer laser coronary catheters: performance analysis. J Clin Laser Med Surg 19:9–14

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Fujii K, Kubo T, Otake H, Nakazawa G, Sonoda S, Hibi K et al (2022) Expert consensus statement for quantitative measurement and morphological assessment of optical coherence tomography: update 2022. Cardiovasc Interv Ther 37:248–254

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Iijima R, Shinji H, Ikeda N, Itaya H, Makino K, Funatsu A et al (2006) Comparison of coronary arterial finding by intravascular ultrasound in patients with transient no-reflow versus reflow during percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndrome. Am J Cardiol 97:29–33

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Généreux P, Stone GW, Harrington RA, Gibson CM, Steg PG, Brener SJ et al (2014) Impact of intraprocedural stent thrombosis during percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the CHAMPION PHOENIX trial (clinical trial comparing cangrelor to clopidogrel standard of care therapy in subjects who require percutaneous coronary intervention). J Am Coll Cardiol 63:619–629

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Kume T, Akasaka T, Kawamoto T, Watanabe N, Toyota E, Neishi Y et al (2006) Assessment of coronary arterial plaque by optical coherence tomography. Am J Cardiol 97:1172–1175

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Yabushita H, Bouma BE, Houser SL, Aretz HT, Jang IK, Schlendorf KH et al (2002) Characterization of human atherosclerosis by optical coherence tomography. Circulation 106:1640–1645

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Heusch G, Kleinbongard P, Böse D, Levkau B, Haude M, Schulz R et al (2009) Coronary microembolization: from bedside to bench and back to bedside. Circulation 120:1822–1836

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Lam JY, Chesebro JH, Steele PM, Dewanjee MK, Badimon L, Fuster V (1986) Deep arterial injury during experimental angioplasty: relation to a positive indium-111-labeled platelet scintigram, quantitative platelet deposition and mural thrombosis. J Am Coll Cardiol 8:1380–1386

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Dahm JB, Topaz O, Woenckhaus C, Staudt A, Möx B, Hummel A et al (2002) Laser-facilitated thrombectomy: a new therapeutic option for treatment of thrombus-laden coronary lesions. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 56:365–372

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Topaz O, Minisi AJ, Morris C, Mohanty PK, Carr ME Jr (1996) Photoacoustic fibrinolysis: pulsed-wave, mid-infrared laser-clot interaction. J Thromb Thrombolysis 3:209–214

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Topaz O, Bernardo NL, Shah R, McQueen RH, Desai P, Janin Y et al (2001) Effectiveness of excimer laser coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction or in unstable angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 87:849–855

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Sasaoka T, Kurihara K, Ono Y, Shimizu S, Otomo K, Hirao K (2019) Treatment of in-stent restenosis by excimer laser coronary atherectomy and drug-coated balloon: serial assessment with optical coherence tomography. J Interv Cardiol 18:6515129

Google Scholar 

Nakazawa G, Otsuka F, Nakano M, Vorpahl M, Yazdani SK, Ladich E et al (2011) The pathology of neoatherosclerosis in human coronary implants bare-metal and drug-eluting stents. J Am Coll Cardiol 57:1314–1322

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Papapostolou S, Andrianopoulos N, Duffy SJ, Brennan AL, Ajani AE, Clark DJ et al (2018) Long-term clinical outcomes of transient and persistent no-reflow following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI): a multicentre Australian registry. EuroIntervention 14:185–193

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Soeda T, Higuma T, Abe N, Yamada M, Yokoyama H, Shibutani S et al (2017) Morphological predictors for no reflow phenomenon after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction caused by plaque rupture. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 18:103–110

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Fernández-Ortiz A, Badimon JJ, Falk E, Fuster V, Meyer B, Mailhac A et al (1994) Characterization of the relative thrombogenicity of atherosclerotic plaque components: implications for consequences of plaque rupture. J Am Coll Cardiol 23:1562–1569

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Chan W, Stub D, Clark DJ, Ajani AE, Andrianopoulos N, Brennan AL et al (2012) Usefulness of transient and persistent no reflow to predict adverse clinical outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention. Am J Cardiol 109:478–485

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar