Study Finds Repeated Episodes of Stent Thrombo... ( Treating stent thrombosis with anothe...)

Study Finds Repeated Episodes of Stent Thrombosis Common

Date:3/29/2008

Treating stent thrombosis with another stent hikes the risk of repeat blood

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CHICAGO, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- When a clot develops inside a coronary stent, it can block blood flow to the heart, potentially causing a heart attack or even death. A single incident of stent thrombosis is bad enough, but a new study suggests that one in six patients can expect to experience at least one repeat episode. According to the Dutch Stent Thrombosis Study, among the strongest predictors of recurrent stent thrombosis is implantation of an additional stent during emergency treatment of the first episode.

The study will be reported today in a Late-Breaking Clinical Trials session at the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit (SCAI-ACCi2) in Chicago. SCAI-ACCi2 is a scientific meeting for practicing cardiovascular interventionalists sponsored by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) in partnership with the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

Jochem Wouter van Werkum, MD, a cardiologist at St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, led the study. He and his colleagues enrolled a total of 437 consecutive patients who had stent thrombosis confirmed by angiography between January 2004 and February 2007. The researchers collected data on clinical characteristics (for example, diabetes, age and duration of antiplatelet therapy), angiographic characteristics (for example, undersizing of the stent, dissection and whether the lesion was located at an arterial branchpoint), and procedural characteristics (for example, whether a drug-eluting or bare-metal stent was used and the length and diameter of the stent).

The researchers found that 74 of the 437 patients (16.9 percent) experienced multiple episodes of stent thrombosis. Of these, 61 patients had two episodes of stent thrombosis, 12 patients had three episodes and one patient had four episodes. Fur
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