Drug-Eluting Stent Used to Treat a Case of Recurrent Right Coronary Artery In-Stent Restenoses often Accompanied by Acute Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction.
10.4070/kcj.2005.35.6.480
- Author:
Si Hoon PARK
1
;
Ki Hwan KWON
;
Sung Kee RYU
Author Information
1. Department of Cardiology and Ewha Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. sihoon@ewha.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Coronary restenosis;
Myocardial infarction;
Thrombosis
- MeSH:
Coronary Restenosis;
Coronary Vessels*;
Drug-Eluting Stents*;
Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction*;
Myocardial Infarction;
Stents;
Thrombosis
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
2005;35(6):480-483
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
We successfully treated a case of in-stent restenosis, which presented on 6 occasions, resulting in frequent acute inferior wall myocardial infarctions, using a drug-eluting stent. This case demonstrates that drug-eluting stents offer the promise of an effective treatment for frequent in-stent restenosis, and importantly, that the underexpansion of a drug-eluting stent heightens the risk of acute or subacute stent thrombosis.
