Impact of the Balloon Inflation Time and Pattern on the Coronary Stent Expansion

Table 1

Stent types used in the intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography study.

Stent pairs	Stent name (manufacturer)	Platform material	Strut thickness, μm	Type of coating drug	Nominal diameter, mm (pressure, atm.)	Diameter at RBP, mm (RBP, atm)	Length of paired stents, mm
1	Nobori (Terumo, Tokyo, Japan)	316L stainless steel	135	Biolimus	2.5 (8)	2.72 (16)	8
							28
2	Alex (Balton, Warsaw, Poland)	cobalt-chromium alloy	70	Sirolimus	2.5 (8)	2.81 (16)	8
							29
3					2.75 (8)	3.1 (16)	22
							22
4	Integrity (Medtronic, Inc., MN. USA)	cobalt-chromium alloy	91	-	2.55 (9)	2.8 (16)	14
							14
5					3.45 (9)	3.75 (16)	12
							12
6	Liberte Monorail (Boston Scientific, MA, USA)	316L stainless steel	97	-	3.03 (9)	3.48 (18)	20
							20
7	Promus Premier (Boston Scientific, MA, USA)	platinum-chromium alloy	81	Everolimus	2.95 (11)	3.17 (16)	38
							38
8					3.51 (11)	3.77 (16)	32
							32
9	Synergy (Boston Scientific, MA, USA)	platinum-chromium alloy	79	Everolimus	3.08 (11)	3.27 (16)	38
							38
10					3.55 (11)	3.79 (16)	32
							32

Abbreviation: RBP: rated burst pressure.