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Treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis with a drug eluting stent in a heart transplant patient with allograft vasculopathy
Department of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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Dr Gabor F Matos
Department of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, 2130 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153, USA; gmatos{at}lumc.edu
High risk angioplasty with drug eluting stent placement into an unprotected left main coronary artery in a heart transplant recipient with allograft vasculopathy is reported. Ten month angiographic follow up is reported. The literature is reviewed and current methods of revascularisation are described in detail. This is the first report of drug eluting stent use in this clinical situation.
Keywords: allograft vasculopathy; angioplasty; complication; drug eluting stent; heart transplant recipient
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Heart 2005 91: 170.
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