Drug-Eluting Stent Used to Treat a Case of Recurrent Right Coronary Artery In-Stent Restenoses often Accompanied by Acute Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction

ABSTRACT

We successfully treated a case of in-stent restenosis, which presented on 6 occasions, resulting in frequent acute inferior wall myocardial infarctions, using a drug-eluting stent. This case demonstrates that drug-eluting stents offer the promise of an effective treatment for frequent in-stent restenosis, and importantly, that the underexpansion of a drug-eluting stent heightens the risk of acute or subacute stent thrombosis.