Abstract:The progressive nature of coronary atherosclerotic disease is often neglected in patients submitted to percutaneous coronary intervention. Very late (> 1 year) myocardial infarctions affecting the treated myocardial territory are usually attributed to device related complications. We report the case of a patient with acute inferior wall ST-elevation myocardial infarction, who had a thrombotic occlusion of a bare-metal stent implanted 8 years before. Despite the angiographic diagnosis of very late stent thrombo… Show more
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