title: Repeat late instent-stenosis after an interval of four years in the same lesion after bare-metal and drug-eluting stent: a case report.
abstract: In 2001, a 71-year old male was admitted to our hospital with unstable angina. The angiography revealed 2-vessel disease with a 90% stenosis of the proximal LAD. A bare-metal stent was implanted. Four years later the angiography showed a 80% instent-stenosis in the bare-metal stent but no progress at the other coronary arteries. A DES was implanted. Again, four years later, the patient presented with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Angiography showed a 90% instent-restenosis, again without any progession of coronary artery disease in the other vessels. Again a DES implanted. Therefore the processes involved in the late instent-stenosis were not influenced by the antiproliferative agent sirolimus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology Herzzentrum Ludwigshafen, Medizinische Klinik B, 67063 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Towae
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zahn
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Zeymer