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Images in cardiology
The rock-hard stent sandwich
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A 47-year-old man presented with an acute coronary syndrome associated with long-segment, calcific disease of the left anterior descending coronary artery which was treated by insertion of a 3.5×2 mm drug-eluting stent. He re-presented with a similar acute syndrome 11 months later. Repeat angiography showed a total occlusion in this stent. …