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    Abbreviations

    Word or phrase

    Abbreviation

    Acute coronary syndrome

    ACS

    American College of Cardiology

    ACC

    American Heart Association

    AHA

    Academic Research Consortium

    ARC

    Bioresorbable stents

    BRS

    Bioresorbable vascular scaffold

    BVS

    Coronary artery disease

    CAD

    Coronary artery aneurysm

    CAA

    Coronary heart disease

    CHD

    Confidence interval

    CI

    Drug-eluting stents

    DES

    Device-oriented composite endpoint

    DOCE

    Everolimus-eluting stent

    EES

    Hazard ratio

    HR

    Health technology assessment

    HTA

    Intravascular ultrasound

    IVUS

    Left circumflex artery

    LCX

    Left anterior descending artery

    LAD

    Major adverse cardiovascular event

    MACE

    Magnesium-based bioresorbable scaffold

    MgBRS

    Myocardial infarction

    MI

    Optical coherence tomography

    OCT

    Odds ratio

    OR

    Percutaneous coronary intervention

    PCI

    Patient-oriented composite endpoint

    POCE

    Randomised controlled trials

    RCTs

    Risk ratio

    RR

    Reference vessel diameter

    RVD

    Scaffold thrombosis

    ScT

    Sirolimus eluting stent

    SES

    ST elevation myocardial infarction

    STEMI

    Target vessel revascularisation

    TVR

    Target vessel failure

    TVF

    Target lesion failure

    TLF

    Target lesion revascularisation

    TLR