Superimposed stents in the management of acute recoil after Palmaz-Schatz stenting.
We report a patient in whom aorto-ostial stenting with a Palmaz-Schatz coronary stent was complicated by significant acute elastic recoil, despite appropriate positioning of the stent and full expansion of a high-pressure, postdilatation balloon. Superimposing a Palmaz biliary stent overcame the inward radial force of this lesion and achieved an adequate lumen.
Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0022, USA.
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