Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2837433 | Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is the most common cause of long-term graft failure after heart transplantation. In the absence of a specific treatment for this condition, percutaneous coronary revascularization (PCI) has been the main palliative treatment. Although long-term results are unknown, use of drug-eluting stents (DES) has been shown to have favorable outcome when used in heart transplant patients for treatment of focal lesions in CAV. We report the case of a 77-year-old male who presented with restenosis secondary to DES stent fracture (SF) after treatment of CAV with sirolimus-eluting stents (SES).
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Authors
Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Venkata Chilakapati, Stephanie Dunlap, Massoud A. Leesar,