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Angiographic and histological assessment of successfully treated late acute stent thrombosis secondary to a sirolimus-eluting stent
1 Department of Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street London, SW3 6NP, UK
2 CVPath, International Registry of Pathology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
3 Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street London, SW3 6NP, UK
4 National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, Dovehouse Street, London, SW3 6LY, UK
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A 47-year-old man with hypertension presented with angina in August 2005. Angiography showed a severe proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery stenosis (Panel A). Following pre-dilatation, a 3.0 x 18 mm sirolimus-eluting stent (Cordis, Johnson