title: Very delayed coronary stent fracture: A case report.
abstract: A stent fracture is an emerging complication of the coronary stents. There are numerous risk factors for stent fractures; which include forceful exaggerated motion in the atrioventricular groove seen in right coronary artery, long stent, an ostial lesion at the point of maximum curvature in a tortuous vessel, stent over-expansion, stent overlapping with different size stents, complex lesion after stenting of a totally occluded vessel, Cypher stent and a highly mobile segment causing high mechanical stress. Furthermore, chronic stretch at specific vessel sites as bends may lead to late occurrence of fracture. Here we report a case of 40-year-old male who had two overlapping Cypher stents (3.0 × 13 mm and 2.75 × 18 mm) deployed at mid left anterior descending artery 2 years earlier presented with progressive chest pain.
authors: Riyadh Military Hospital, Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre (PSCC), Adult Cardiology Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors: Rasheed Nagm
authors: RN
authors: Eldin
authors: Hussein
authors: H
authors: Alamri
authors: Abdulrahman
authors: A
authors: Almoghairi
keywords: Coronary artery disease; Drug eluting stent; Sirolimus-eluting stent; Stent fracture
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