[Recurrent myocardial infarction after very late stent thrombosis, report of one case]

ABSTRACT

Stent thrombosis as a complication of percutaneous coronary intervention frequently is associated with deadly events such as myocardial infarction and sudden death. Definitions of stent thrombosis have hot been in a uniform manner in different clinical studies. Two episodes of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction nearly two years after implanting a drug -eluting stent in a 58-year-old male patient is reported here. The presence of stent thrombosis was confirmed by coronary angiography