Inflammatory substrate with eosinophils may be present in bare-metal stent thrombosis.
Coronary stent thrombosis is a rare but life-threatening event after percutaneous revascularization. We report an in-vivo documentation of the pathologic process in the setting of a very late thrombosis within a bare-metal stent, showing eosinophil infiltrates. Interestingly, our case indicates that eosinophil infiltrates might not be a peculiarity of late drug-eluting stent thrombosis.
Zavalloni
Dennis
D
U.O.Emodinamica e Cardiologia Invasiva, Italy. dennis.zavalloni_parenti@humanitas.it
Bossi
Paola
P
Rossi
Marco L
ML
Gasparini
Gabriele L
GL
Lisignoli
Veronica
V
Presbitero
Patrizia
P
D000368:Aged; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology