Release of Intracoronary Microparticles during Stent Implantation into Stable Atherosclerotic Lesions under Protection with an Aspiration Device
Fig 3
Numbers of MPs in RCA and SVG-RCA before and after stent implantation.
Numbers of PMPs (CD41+), EMPs (CD144+, CD62E+ or CD31+/CD41-), LMPs (CD45+), and ERMPs (CD235+) are presented as minimum and maximum (crosses), interquartile range from 25 to 75% (box), mean (square), and median (line) in a box plot. Comparison between arterial plasma and aspirate plasma as well as RCA and SVG-RCA was done by 2-way repeated measures ANOVA followed by Fishers LSD post-hoc test; EMPs = endothelium-derived MPs, ERMPs = erythrocyte-derived MPs, LMPs = leukocyte-derived MPs, MPs = microparticles, nr = number, PMPs = platelet-derived MPs, RCA = native right coronary arteries, SVG-RCA = saphenous vein grafts on right coronary arteries.