Dark side of drug-eluting stent: multiple stent fractures and sudden death.
Recently reported stent fractures after sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) implantation were found several months later during the follow-up of coronary angiogram (CAG) and single fracture mostly. The study reports a case of sequential, continuous, multiple coronary stent fracture and sudden death.
Kang
Won Yu
WY
Kim
Weon
W
Hwang
Sun Ho
SH
Kim
Wan
W
D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D054059:Coronary Occlusion / Q000628:therapy; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011475:Prosthesis Failure