ABSTRACT

Since 1986, when stents were first inserted into human coronary arteries, hundreds of thousands have been implanted, as they have become the universal panacea for complications and for complex lesion subsets. Illustrated throughout with angiograms Coronary Artery Stenting looks at the latest technologies and the resulting developments and problems.

chapter 1|6 pages

Discrete lesions

chapter 3|10 pages

Multiple vessels

chapter 4|14 pages

Total chronic occlusions

chapter 9|8 pages

Ostial disease

Martin T Rothman:

chapter 10|16 pages

Acute coronary syndromes

chapter 12|14 pages

Complications 2: dissections

chapter 13|6 pages

Stent thrombosis

chapter 14|10 pages

Restenosis

Case 1. Restenosis