Research Article

Clinical Outcomes from Unselected “Real-World” Patients with Long Coronary Lesion Receiving 40 mm Biodegradable Polymer Coated Sirolimus-Eluting Stent

Table 2

Lesion and procedural characteristics.

CharacteristicsPatients = 258/lesions = 278

Lesion location
 Left anterior descending, (%)100 (36.0%)
 Right coronary artery, (%)141 (50.7%)
 Left circumflex, (%)37 (13.3%)
 Left main, (%)0 (0%)
ACC/AHA lesion classification
 C, (%)278 (100%)
Number of diseased vessels
 Single-vessel disease, (%)165 (64.0%)
 Double-vessel disease, (%)79 (30.6%)
 Triple-vessel disease, (%)14 (5.4%)
Total occlusion, (%)61 (21.9%)

Total number of stents

Number of stents per patient
(mean ± SD, mm)
1.1 ± 0.3
Number of stents per lesion
(mean ± SD, mm)
1.0 ± 0.1
Average stent length
(mean ± SD, mm)
40.0 ± 0.0
Average stent diameter
(mean ± SD, mm)
3.1 ± 0.4

ACC/AHA: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association.