title: Recurrent bare metal stent thrombosis: six years, single center experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate clinical characteristics, treatment and outcomes of patients suffering from recurrent bare metal stent thrombosis (RST).
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective evaluation of patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with bare metal stent implantation between January 2002 and December 2007 was performed. Patients who experienced more than one in stent thrombotic episode were identified and procedural and clinical outcomes were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eight thousand eight hundred sixteen patients underwent PCI with bare metal stent implantation during the study period. Ninety five patients (1.1%) underwent PCI due to stent thrombosis and 6 (6.3%) of them [mean age 69 ± 14 years (range 43-83 years)] underwent a second procedure due to RST. Emergency PCI was performed in all patients, with a favourable angiographic outcome in 4 (67%) of them. The procedure was complicated by death in 1, major ischemic stroke in 1 and acute coronary by pass grafting in 1 patient. The ejection fraction before the initial intervention and after the second thrombotic episode declined from 52 ± 14% to 33 ± 15% (p < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Recurrent stent thrombosis is a rare, but major complication following stent implantation, which dramatically affects patients' outcomes.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koutouzis
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Albertsson
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ioanes
authors.forename: Farshad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tahmasebiepour
authors.forename: Göran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Matejka
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Grip
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013997:Time Factors