Pathologically dissimilar acute stent thromboses in a metal allergic patient
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A 66-year-old man was hospitalized with an acute inferolateral myocardial infarction. A stent thrombosis (ST) developed immediately after implantation of a stent in the distal right coronary artery (Fig. 1a–c). After multiple angioplasty balloon dilatations and insertion of an intraaortic balloon pump, the formation of thrombi finally ended. The next day, the patient developed recurrent chest pain and an emergent coronary angiography
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دوره 28 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017