Acute stent thrombosis of a bioresorbable vascular scaffold implanted for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Tadashi Miyazaki; Vasileios F Panoulas; Katsumasa Sato; Toru Naganuma; Azeem Latib; Antonio Colombo

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.108

Acute stent thrombosis of a bioresorbable vascular scaffold implanted for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Jun 15;174(2):e72-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.108. Epub 2014 Apr 13.

Authors

Tadashi Miyazaki¹, Vasileios F Panoulas², Katsumasa Sato³, Toru Naganuma³, Azeem Latib³, Antonio Colombo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.
² Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy; Imperial College London, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK.
³ Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO-GVM Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: info@emocolumbus.it.

PMID: 24784914
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.108

No abstract available

Keywords: Bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS); Bivalirudin; In-scaffold thrombosis; In-stent thrombosis; ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Absorbable Implants*
Acute Disease
Aged
Coronary Thrombosis / etiology*
Drug-Eluting Stents / adverse effects*
Humans
Male
Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
Myocardial Infarction / surgery*
Tissue Scaffolds*