title: Diffuse vasospasm following stenting of a free gastroepiploic artery graft: resolution with balloon angioplasty and intensive medical therapy.
abstract: Vasospasm following balloon angioplasty of gastroepiploic artery bypass grafts can be prevented or reversed with vasodilators. In our patient, stent deployment for ostial stenosis of a free gastroepiploic artery graft was accompanied by severe, diffuse spasm and a change in graft configuration that required both intensive medical therapy and balloon angioplasty for resolution.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feld
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kjellgren
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Sweeney
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Drtil
authors.forename: H V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schroth
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tauss
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taegtmeyer
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Smalling
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003329:Coronary Vasospasm / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents