Stenting the stent: Alternative strategy for treating in-stent restenosis

✍ Scribed by Ceceña, Felipe A.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 543 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0304(199612)39:4<377::aid-ccd12>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

Several approaches have been taken to relieve restenosis inside a vascular stent. In a patient with a complicated history of coronary artery disease, a restenotic lesion inside a Gianturco-Roubin flex stent was relleved by angloplasty and deployment of three 10 mm Palmaz P-104 "biliary" stents, with uroklnase and verapamil used to prevent thromboembollsm and the no-refiow phenomenon. An angiographic study 6 months later showed a patent graft with no residual stenosis.