Visconti Gabriella, Taranto Domenico, Briguori Carlo
Laboratory of Interventional Cardiology, Clinica Mediterranea, Naples, Italy.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2008 Nov 15;72(6):873-6. doi: 10.1002/ccd.21724.
Stent implantation is an alternative, safe, and reliable strategy for the treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia, especially for patients at high surgical risk. However, in-stent restenosis (the Achille's hill of bare metal stent) may occur in up to 20% of cases at 6 months and 53% at 1 year. We describe a case of celiac trunk stenosis treated by bare metal stent complicated by recalcitrant in-stent restenosis and treated by paclitaxel-eluting stent implantation.