Late multiple stent fractures following deployment of sirolimus-eluting stents for diffuse right coronary artery stenosis

International Heart Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 767-772

  Aoki, Asako ^a   Tanabe, Jun ^a   Inami, Toru ^a   Ogano, Michio ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuaki ^a   Hosokawa, Yusuke ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Takano, Hitoshi ^b   Mizuno, Kyoichi ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drug eluting stent; Intravascular ultrasound; Multislice computed tomography; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Stent strut fracture

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; RAPAMYCIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; STENT FRACTURE;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 37649017849     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.48.767     Document Type: Article

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