Revista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular (Jan 2011)

Very late stent trombosis. An unpleasant surprise.

  • César Enrique Filgueiras Frías,
  • Rubén Bestard Bicet,
  • Sara Laria Menchaca,
  • Leonardo López Ferrero,
  • Jesús M. Pérez del Todo,
  • Luis H. Villanueva Ponte

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 2
pp. 180 – 185

Abstract

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The stent thrombosis is a clinical event whose incidence is not well clarified, since, with a lotof frequency, the angiographic confirmation it is not used as an inclusion criteria in clinicaltrials. Although it is a not very common complication, it’s severity is given, fundamentally,because their form of presentation is the sudden death or the myocardial infarction with STsegment elevation in 80% of the patients. The case of 58 years old female patient, is presentedwith a very late thrombosis in a conventional stent, 5 years and 8 months after theinstallation of the device in the right coronary artery.

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