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Delayed severe multivessel spasm and aborted sudden death after Taxus stent implantation
1Department of Cardiology, Guro Hospital Cardiovascular Centre, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|January 20, 2005
Abstract:
Sudden cardiac arrest associated with major spasm of three coronary arteries was observed about 10 hours after Taxus stent insertion in a three vessel lesion and was successfully treated by intracoronary glyceryl trinitrate infusion. This case illustrates a potential risk associated with drug eluting stent and alerts clinicians to the life threatening risk of spasm when stenting multiple vessels with drug eluting stent (especially the Taxus stent).
