This study is being done to study stent deformation on persons with de novo coronary lesions to determine how much deformation takes place and how often. The information gathered from the group that receives the Promus element stent will be compared to other groups that receive other contemporary drug eluting stents.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
500
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Stent length
The primary endpoint of this study will be to assess the overall change in stent length post deployment by intravascualar ultrasound (IVUS) between the 5 stent groups.
Time frame: 1 day
IVUS stent length
The secondary endpoints of this analysis will be to detect the occurrence of a 10% change in stent length by IVUS as compared to the labeled stent length.
Time frame: 1 day
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