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Early stent occlusion is not always caused by thrombosis

✍ Scribed by Heijer, Peter Den ;van Dijk, René B. ;Twisk, S. Pé M. ;Lie, Kong I.


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
454 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0098-6569

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✦ Synopsis


Early occlusion of intracoronary stents has been exclusively attributed to thrombosis. Using intracoronary angioscopy, we have found 2 patients in whom this common and serious complication of coronary stenting was caused by obstructive intima dissection rather than thrombosis.