Improved vascular healing after the successful treatment of very late sirolimus-eluting stent thrombosis with a bare metal stent implantation – A serial optical coherence tomography study

We present the case of a patient with non-ST-elevated myocardial infarction due to very late stent thrombosis 2 years after a sirolimus-eluting stent implantation (SES). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging identified vessel wall destruction of the whole stented coronary segment with multiple...

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Main Authors: Konstantina P. Bouki, MD, Delia Vlad, MD, Maria Riga, MD, Ifigenia Stergiouli, MD, Konstantinos P. Toutouzas, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-03-01
Series:Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1109966616300082