Incomplete Stent Apposition Causes High Shear Flow Disturbances and Delay in Neointimal Coverage as a Function of Strut to Wall Detachment Distance: Implications for the Management of Incomplete Stent Apposition

Flow disturbances and risk of delayed strut coverage both increase with ISA detachment distance, and insights from this study are important for understanding malapposition as a quantitative, rather than binary phenomenon and to define the threshold ofISA detachment that might benefit from optimization during stent implantation.