Fatal ostial right coronary artery coronary stent fracture and perforation induced by mechanical stress between the sternum and dilated aortic root

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1679-1682

  Hoshi, Tomoya ^a   Sato, Akira ^b   Nishina, Hidetaka ^a   Kakefuda, Yuki ^b   Noguchi, Yuichi ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^b  

^a TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABSCESS; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ROOT; AUTOPSY; BARE METAL STENT; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY STENT FRACTURE; CORONARY STENT PERFORATION; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MECHANICAL STRESS; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REST; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEPSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; STERNUM; ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANEURYSM, FALSE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FATALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STENT;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CORONARY VESSELS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENTS; STERNUM; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79955486293     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.001537     Document Type: Note

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