den Heijer P, van Dijk R B, Twisk S P, Lie K I
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn. 1993 Jun;29(2):136-40. doi: 10.1002/ccd.1810290210.
Early occlusion of intracoronary stents has been exclusively attributed to thrombosis. Using intracoronary angioscopy, we have found 2 patients in whom this common and serious complication of coronary stenting was caused by obstructive intima dissection rather than thrombosis.
