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A Murine Model of Stent Implantation in the Carotid Artery for the Study of Restenosis
Published on: May 14, 2013
Fatal infection after rapamycin eluting coronary stent implantation
F Alfonso1, R Moreno, J Vergas
1Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiovascular Institute, San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. falf@hotmail.com
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|May 17, 2005
Abstract:
Septic complications after coronary stenting are extremely rare. The occurrence of cardiac related sepsis after rapamycin eluting stent deployment has not been previously reported. The potential role of drug eluting stents in locally blunting the innate response to bacterial agents is discussed.
