{"id":1396,"date":"2010-01-06T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/stent-gap-rap\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:18","slug":"stent-gap-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/06\/stent-gap-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Stent Gap Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiology.jwatch.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2009\/1223\/2\">recent study<\/a> using computed tomographic angiography (CTA), the incidence of so-called stent gaps &#8212; due to stent strut fracture or failure to overlap stents &#8212; is 17%.\u00a0 These stent gaps are associated with an increased incidence of in-stent restenosis. Interestingly, stent gaps were identified in only 1% of routine coronary angiography procedures.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGiven these data, should we routinely be doing IVUS at the time of insertion of overlapping stents to verify that the stents do, in fact, overlap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a\u00a0recent study using computed tomographic angiography (CTA), the incidence of so-called stent gaps &#8212; due to stent strut fracture or failure to overlap stents &#8212; is 17%.\u00a0 These stent gaps are associated with an increased incidence of in-stent restenosis. Interestingly, stent gaps were identified in only 1% of routine coronary angiography procedures. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}