Late thrombosis of sirolimus-eluting stents following noncardiac surgery

✍ Scribed by Mithal Nasser; Michael Kapeliovich; Walter Markiewicz

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-1946
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20391

✦ Synopsis

We describe two patients with in-stent thrombosis occurring 4 and 21 months after implantation of sirolimus-eluting stents. Both cases occurred following noncardiac surgery. In both cases, aspirin had been stopped prior to surgery. Both patient sustained a severe myocardial infarction; one died. The occurrence of late thrombosis of sirolimus-eluting stents is of concern.