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Greater late lumen loss after successful coronary balloon angioplasty in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery is not explained by extent of vessel wall damage or plaque burden

Wouter E. M. Kok, MD^*, Ron J. G. Peters, MD, Gerard Pasterkamp, MD, Carlo Di Mario, MD, Patrick W. Serruys, MD, FACC^¶, Martin Prins, MD^#, Cees A. Visser, MD, FACC^* for the PICTURE study group^g

^* Department of Cardiology, Free University Hospital Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
the Heart Lung Institute, Utrecht University Hospital, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy
^¶ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
^# Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
^g for the PICTURE study group, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

View larger version (29K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Cumulative frequency distribution of (A) late lumen loss (mm) and (B) relative late lumen loss after PTCA in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD prox) lesions compared with other lesions.