Stenting the stent: alternative strategy for treating in-stent restenosis.

Abstract

Several approaches have been taken to relieve restenosis inside a vascular stent. In a patient with a complicated history of coronary artery disease, a restenotic lesion inside a Gianturco-Roubin flex stent was relieved by angioplasty and deployment of three 10 mm Palmaz P-104 "biliary" stents, with urokinase and verapamil used to prevent thromboembolism and the no-reflow phenomenon. An angiographic study 6 months later showed a patient graft with no residual stenosis.

• Authors: F A Ceceña
• Journal: Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis (Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn) Vol. 39 Issue 4 Pg. 377-82 (Dec 1996) ISSN: 0098-6569 [Print] United States
• PMID: 8958427 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Adult
• Angina, Unstable (diagnostic imaging, surgery)
• Combined Modality Therapy
• Coronary Angiography
• Coronary Artery Bypass
• Coronary Disease (diagnostic imaging, therapy)
• Coronary Vessels (diagnostic imaging)
• Humans
• Male
• Recurrence
• Reoperation
• Stents
• Ultrasonography, Interventional