Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 50 No. 4, 2011.
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Repetitive Stent Fractures with Diffuse Coronary Artery Microaneurysm Formation – Sirolimus Eluting Stent Hypersensitivity?
Nikola Pavlović
orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-7681
Krešimir Štambuk
Ivo Darko Gabrić
Matias Trbušić
Tomislav Krčmar
Šime Manola
Hrvoje Pintarić
Vjekoslav Radeljić
Diana Delić-Brkljačić
Ozren Vinter
Abstract
While drug eluting stents (DES ) are being more widely used in ever more patients receiving DES each day, some new complications may be emerging. Stent fractures and hypersensitivity reactions to stents are among recognized complications that can lead to therapeutic dead end from the interventional cardiologist’s point of view. We present a case in which we reached therapeutic dead end with a sirolimus eluting stent, i.e. repetitive stent fractures with diffuse microaneurysms along the implanted DES , possibly due to hypersensitivity reaction to parts of the stent.
Keywords
Coronary stent restenosis; Prosthesis failure; Drug eluting stents; Hypersensitivity, polymer; Coronary aneurysm
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Publication date:
14.12.2011.
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