Restenosis, statistics, and reasonable inferences.

ith great interest I read the report by Weissman et al. (1) regarding ntravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis of polymer-based aclitaxel-eluting stents. The investigators stated in the text that positive remodeling assessed as the absolute increase in the xternal elastic membrane volume over time tended to be slightly ore prominent with the TAXUS stent (7.66 48.64 mm vs. 12.29 36.05 mm, respectively, p 0.064).” Also Figure 1 uggested positive remodeling in the TAXUS stent. However, able 2 of their article (1) shows an inconsistent result, that is, ecrease of external elastic membrane volume in the TAXUS-stent roup (283 91 mm at postimplantation vs. 280 89 mm at ine-month follow-up). Because a previous IVUS analysis has also uggested positive remodeling in the TAXUS stent (2), it may be f great importance to better clarify this result.