PMID: 15378108Sep 21, 2004Paper

Long-term (> 3 years) clinical and angiographic outcomes of coronary multilink stent implantations: a single center experience

Angiology
Kenan SonmezNilufer E Duran

Abstract

The ACS Multilink (ML) stent is a novel second-generation stent. The largest amount of information available on the long-term outcome of coronary stenting is based on the use of Palmaz-Schatz stents. Fewer data exist on long-term follow-up results of ML coronary stents implantations. The authors present the long-term (> 3 years) clinical and angiographic follow-up results of the ACS Multilink coronary stents implanted in their institution. From May 1996 to December 1997, 125 patients underwent 133 coronary ML stent implantations. Stented vessels were as follows: 49% left anterior descending artery, 31% right coronary artery, and 20% left circumflex coronary artery. Indications for stent implantations were elective in 64%, because of suboptimal result from percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 26%, and bailout from PTCA in 10% of patients. The mean reference diameter of stented vessels was 3.2 +/- 0.2 mm. The mean percentage stenosis was 80 +/- 11% and 3 +/- 5% before and after stent implantation, respectively. Long-term clinical follow-up was completed in 75% (80 men, mean age 53 +/- 10 years) of the patients (either by interview or phone), and angiographic follow-up (37 +/- 12 months) was completed in 58% of...Continue Reading

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