Nightmare: Simultaneous Subacute Stent Thrombosis of Different New-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents in Multiple Coronary Arteries.

Simultaneous subacute thrombosis of bare metal coronary stents in two different arteries early after clopidogrel cessation.

Coronary stent thrombosis is a rare event leading to ST segment elevation myocardial infarction and death. Although early thrombosis of drug-eluting and bare metal stents is relatively frequent, simultaneous thrombosis of bare metal coronary stents has rarely been reported. Here, we present a case of simultaneous subacute thrombosis of two bare metal stents in different coronary arteries ea...

Simultaneous subacute thrombosis in two new-generation drug-eluting stents in different vessels

Simultaneous Multi-Vessel Subacute Stent Thromboses in Zotarolimus-Eluting Stents

Despite its low incidence, stent thrombosis (ST) is one of the most dreaded complications of percutaneous coronary intervention. Endeavor (Medtronics Europe SA) is a new zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) with a favorable safety profile that was reported in early and ongoing trials. However, few lethal stent thromboses related to this new drug eluting stent (DES) have been reported. We experienced...

Drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in large coronary arteries.

BACKGROUND Recent data have suggested that patients with coronary disease in large arteries are at increased risk for late cardiac events after percutaneous intervention with first-generation drug-eluting stents, as compared with bare-metal stents. We sought to confirm this observation and to assess whether this increase in risk was also seen with second-generation drug-eluting stents. METHOD...

A Fatal Case of Simultaneous, Very Late Thrombosis Involving Three Drug-Eluting Stents in Three Coronary Arteries

Late stent thrombosis is one of the most serious complications associated with morbidity and mortality after coronary drug-eluting stent implantation, and is mainly caused by the withdrawal of antiplatelet agents. We report our experience of late stent thrombosis simultaneously involving three different coronary arteries in a young male patient who was treated with three drug-eluting stents two...