title: A patient with repeated catastrophic multi-vessel coronary spasm after zotarolimus-eluting stent implantation.
abstract: Drug-eluting stents (DES) have gained great popularity because of extraordinarily low rates of restenosis. Despite these superior clinical outcomes, several cases regarding the severe multi-vessel coronary spasm, although rare, after the placement of first generation DES have been reported. We report a case of severe, multi-vessel coronary spasm that occurred two occasions after placement of a zotarolimus-eluting stent, one of the second generation DES, in a 42-year-old man with unstable angina. The first incidence was relieved by intracoronary nitroglycerin alone, and second incident, which had combined fixed stenosis was treated with intracoronary nitroglycerin and everolimus-eluting stent.
authors: Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea.
authors: Shi Hyun
authors: SH
authors: Rhew
authors: Youngkeun
authors: Y
authors: Ahn
authors: Eun Ae
authors: EA
authors: Cho
authors: Min Sok
authors: MS
authors: Kim
authors: Su Young
authors: SY
authors: Jang
authors: Ki Hong
authors: KH
authors: Lee
authors: Min Goo
authors: MG
authors: Lee
authors: Keun Ho
authors: KH
authors: Park
authors: Doo Sun
authors: DS
authors: Sim
authors: Young Joon
authors: YJ
authors: Hong
authors: Ju Han
authors: JH
authors: Kim
authors: Myung Ho
authors: MH
authors: Jeong
keywords: Coronary vessels; Drug-eluting stents; Spasm