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Letters |18 December 2007

Very Late Restenosis after Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent Implantation

John Cosgrave, MD; Asif Qasim, PhD; Azeem Latib, MD; Tiziana Claudia Aranzulla, MD; Antonio Colombo, MD

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  • From Centro Cuore Columbus and San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

    Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.

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Background: Late restenosis after drug-eluting stent implantation has been described for sirolimus-eluting stents (Cypher, Johnson & Johnson, Warren, New Jersey) (1–3) but not for paclitaxel-eluting stents (Taxus, Boston Scientific, Natick, Massachusetts) (4).
Objective: To describe a patient with a paclitaxel-eluting stent who presented with late in-stent restenosis 33 months after stent placement.
Case Report: A 76-year-old man with a history of an inferior myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass grafting in 1989 presented to our center in April 2004 with stable angina pectoris. In 2001, he underwent bare-metal stent implantation in the saphenous vein graft to the right coronary...
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Cosgrave J, Qasim A, Latib A, et al. Very Late Restenosis after Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent Implantation. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147:885–887. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-147-12-200712180-00017

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2007;147(12):885-887.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-147-12-200712180-00017

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