Impact of the one-year angioscopic findings on long-term clinical events in 504 patients treated with first-generation or second-generation drug-eluting stents: the DESNOTE-X study

We aimed to test the hypothesis that the presence of in-stent yellow plaque (YP) assessed by angioscopy would be a risk of very late stent failure (VLSF) of the cobalt-chromium everolimus-eluting stent (CoCr-EES) in comparison with first-generation drug-eluting stents (DES).DESNOTE-X was a prospective cohort study, an extended study of the DESNOTE study (UMIN000013515). All patients who received successful angioscopic examination at planned...