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Early stent occlusion is not always caused by thrombosis
P den Heijer1, R B van Dijk, S P Twisk
1Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
Early occlusion of intracoronary stents has been exclusively attributed to thrombosis. Using intracoronary angioscopy, we have found 2 patients in whom this common and serious complication of coronary stenting was caused by obstructive intima dissection rather than thrombosis.