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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.

Matos G, Steen L, Leya F

Department of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, 2130 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153, USA. gmatos@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.

Published 19 January 2005 in Heart, 91(2): e11.
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