title: A Report of Successful Procedural, Clinical, and Angiographic Outcomes with a Tapered Stent of a Patient in Naturally Tapered Coronary Vessel.
abstract: In cases involving stenosis or occlusions in major parts of a long vessel, natural tapering of coronary vessels may create dilemma in deciding the optimal stent size during percutaneous coronary intervention. In this regard, tapered stents have been developed recently. Herein, we present a case of 67-year-old male patient with triple vessel disease including two tandem lesions in naturally tapered Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery. The patient received a 3.0-2.5x60 mm Sirolimus-eluting BioMime Morph stent (Meril life Sciences, Gujarat, India) in the mid-distal LAD lesion along with conventional stent implantations in other two lesions. The procedure was successful and good coronary flow was obtained after revascularization. The patient remained asymptomatic thereafter. At one year, angiographic follow-up revealed good flow and no restenosis in the LAD vessel. We are of opinion that using tapered stents with decremented diameter may offer the advantages of excellent adaptation to vessel size, vessel tapering, and good apposition in patients with long coronary lesions in tapered vessels.
authors.affiliation: Director and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Ltd , Secunderabad, Telangana, India .
authors.forename: Rajendra Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Premchand
authors.affiliation: Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Mahaveer Hospital , Hyderabad, Telangana, India .
authors.forename: Yerra Shiv
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kumar
keywords: BioMime Morph; Long lesion; Percutaneous coronary intervention