Fig. 5

An expanded serial OCT image of the same point during the initial procedure, the one-year follow up, and very late scaffold thrombosis (VLScT) event. During the initial procedure, a minimal malapposition after high pressure NC ballooning is observed. (a) A PLIA was observed in the proximal part of the BVS at the one-year follow up (red arrow). (b) The thrombus was observed at the site where the PLIA was observed, and the strut had been dismantled and was floating in the intraluminal area during the VLScT event (yellow arrow). This image obtained before balloon predilatation. (c) At the time of the VLScT, the Xience alpine 2.75 × 33 mm stent covered the inside of the disrupted scaffold strut with compression toward the vessel wall (white arrow), and a good-expansion was observed in the final OCT image. (d)