Publication Date

12-1-2017

Journal

The Texas Heart Journal

DOI

10.14503/THIJ-16-6059

PMID

29276441

Publication Date(s)

December 2017

Language

English

PMCID

PMC5737153

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

12-19-2017

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-Print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

Absorbable implants, aneurysm, dissecting/diagnosis, blood vessel prosthesis, coronary vessels/diagnostic imaging/pathology, multimodal imaging/methods, percutaneous coronary intervention/instrumentation, rupture, spontaneous, tissue scaffolds, treatment outcome, vascular diseases/therapy

Abstract

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare condition, and diagnosis and treatment are challenging among patients who present with acute coronary syndrome. Typically, the condition affects young females who have no underlying atherosclerotic disease. To date, few cases of bioresorbable scaffold implantation for the treatment of spontaneous coronary artery dissection have been reported. Therefore, we describe the cases of 4 patients whom we treated with scaffolds. We evaluated the long-term results by using intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomographic scanning.

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