chapter Introduction -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS AS AN ESTENOSIS EVICE ONCEPTS AND UMMARY OF IVOTAL TUDIES Patrick W Serruys, Pedro A Lemos -- chapter Figure 1.1 The figure illustrates the process of restenosis after bare stent -- chapter Figure 1.2 The sirolimus-eluting stent.The platform utilized is the stainless steel Bx -- chapter Sirolimus -- chapter TUDY -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS IN EGISTRY ATIONALE AND ESIGN Pedro A Lemos, Patrick W Serruys, Ron T. van Domburg -- chapter Figure 2.1 Study design and 6-month enrolment patient of RESEARCH. -- chapter Introduction -- NRESTRICTED TILIZATION OF IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ORONARY ESIONS Pedro A Lemos, Patrick W Serruys, Ron T. van Domburg -- chapter Figure 3.1 One-year incidence of death, -- chapter Figure 3.3 Hazard ratio of 1-year clinically driven target vessel revascularization in -- chapter WITH Introduction -- AFETY OF IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ATIENTS ORONARY YNDROME Pedro A Lemos, Chi-hang Lee, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Baseline and procedural characteristics -- chapter Figure 4.1 Survival free of myocardial infarction or re-intervention during the first -- chapter Introduction Patient population -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ATIENTS WITH YOCARDIAL NFARCTION Francesco Saia, Pedro A Lemos, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 5.2 Patient admitted for primary recanalization after 3 hours from the onset -- chapter RAFT -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ATIENTS WITH ORONARY YPASS URGERY Angela Hoye, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 7.2 Patient with previous coronary surgery showing a diseased saphenous vein -- chapter Figure 8.1 Forty seven-year old female with end-stage renal failure, -- chapter Introduction Patient population -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ATIENTS WITH ULTIVESSEL ORONARY ISEASE Chourmouzios A Arampatzis, Pedro A Lemos -- chapter Figure 9.1 Triple-vessel sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation in a 40-year-old -- chapter Figure 9.2 Kaplan–Meier curves for the survival free of myocardial infarction or -- chapter Introduction Study population and baseline characteristics -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR LDERLY ATIENTS Maniyal Vijayakumar, Pedro A Lemos, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Clinical outcomes -- chapter Introduction Patient population and procedural characteristics -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR HRONIC CCLUSIONS Angela Hoye, Kengo Tanabe, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 11.2 Chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery (top left, -- chapter Figure 11.3 The percentage re-occlusion (gray bar), -- chapter Introduction Patient population -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ORONARY ESSELS Pedro A Lemos, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 12.2 Reference diameter and late loss in the stent arm of 6 randomized trials -- chapter Introduction -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ESIONS Muzaffer Degertekin, Chourmouzios A Arampatzis, Pedro A Lemos -- chapter Figure 13.2 Long lesion stenting: -- chapter Introduction -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR IFURCATION ESIONS Kengo Tanabe, Angela Hoye, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 14.3 Chronic total occlusion of the left circumflex artery (left panel).The -- chapter Figure 14.4 Sirolimus-eluting stent implantation at the left anterior descending -- chapter Baseline and procedural characteristics -- chapter Introduction -- IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS FOR ESTENOSIS Francesco Saia, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 16.1 In-stent restenosis at the proximal left anterior descending artery (arrow, -- chapter Figure 16.2 Long in-stent restenosis (left top) of a stent implanted 6 months before -- chapter Introduction -- ILATATION OF NDERSIZED IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS Francesco Saia, Pedro A Lemos -- chapter Patient population and procedural characteristics -- chapter Figure 17.2 Totally occluded right coronary artery in a patient admitted with acute -- chapter Figure 18.2 Stent thrombosis (case 2): -- chapter Introduction -- ORPHOLOGY AND ECHANISMS ESTENOSIS IROLIMUS LUTING TENTS Pedro A Lemos, Francesco Saia -- chapter Figure 19.1 Short restenosis at the site of a small gap between stents that was not -- chapter Figure 19.2 Ostial restenosis at a site of incomplete sirolimus-eluting stent coverage. -- chapter Introduction -- REDICTORS OF ESTENOSIS IROLIMUS LUTING MPLANTATION IN OMPLEX ATIENTS Pedro A Lemos, Dick Goedhart, Patrick W Serruys -- chapter Figure 20.1 Multivariate predictors of restenosis after sirolimus-eluting stent -- chapter Figure 20.2 Theoretical restenosis rates for patients included in the RESEARCH in -- chapter 10 T Introduction Patient population -- ESPONSE ATTERN IROLIMUS LUTING MPLANTATION OR ONVENTIONAL TENTING Pedro A Lemos, Ron T Van Domburg, Patrick W Serruys.