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Circumferential strut fracture as a mechanism of "crush" bifurcation restenosis
Sulaiman Rathore1, Timothy Ball, Masataka Nakano
1Cardiology Section, Virginia-Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|January 8, 2013
Abstract:
The "Crush" procedure is a 2-stent technique for the treatment of bifurcation lesions with greater rates of in-stent restenosis than the Culotte technique. In conclusion, we report a possible mechanism for this discrepancy in the case of severe Crush stent fracture with associated focal restenosis identified by postmortem microcomputed tomography and histologic examination.

