Immediate stent recoil in an anastomotic vein graft lesion treated by cutting balloon angioplasty

Saphenous vein graft (SVG) anastomotic lesions can have significant fibromuscular hyperplasia and may be resistant to balloon angioplasty alone. Stents have been used successfully to treat these lesions. There are no reports of immediate stent recoil following such treatment in the literature. We de...

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Main Authors: Nuri Ilker Akkus, Jagan Budeepalli, Mehmet Cilingiroglu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-11-01
Series:Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0870255113002345