In stent restenosis at ostium of Left main coronary artery

- Operator : Seung-Jung Park

In stent restenosis at ostium of Left main coronary artery
- Operator: Seung-Jung Park, MD
Clinical history

A 57 year-old male was admitted for resting chest pain for 1 month and syncope. 4-months ago, he had got PCI at dLM-pLAD with Xience V 3.5*12mm, pdLCx with Xience V 3.5*12mm. (Figure 1) After PCI, he had been stable but 1 month ago, he felt resting chest pain and the frequency of chest pain has been increased. 2 hours ago, he had syncope for 3 minutes with chest pain and then he was referred to ER. He had medication including aspirin, plavix, beta-blocker and statin regularly for last 4 months and his coronary risk factor was hypertension. Her resting ECG was normal.

Baseline coronary angiogram

1. A right coronary angiogram showed mild stenoses in proximal and mid RCA. ( Movie 1)
2. A left coronary angiogram showed very severe stenosis at LMCA ostium, proximal edge of previous stent (Xience V 3.5*12mm) in dLM-pLAD. ( Movie 2, Movie 3)

Procedure

Left coronary artery was engaged with an 7Fr JL 4 guiding catheter with side holes. A 0.014¡± BMW guidewire was crossed into LAD and IVUS catheter was also passed into LAD. IVUS exam showed severe atherosclerosis which was almost encircling IVUS catheter from proximal edge of stent to LMCA ostium. ( Movie 4) We performed FFR at LM, the value was 0.66 at maximum hyperemia with intravenous infusion of adenosine at 140mcg/kg/min.(Figure 2) The proximal edge of stent at LM was treated with direct stenting (Xience V 4.0 x 15 mm) overlapped with previous stent. ( Movie 5, Figure 3) Final angiogram showed a successful stenting at LMCA. ( Movie 6, Movie 7)

Comments

  • Rajesh Vijayvergiya 2010-12-11 Few clarifications are required in the index case:- Was the denova stenting of LM had optimal final result, supported by IVUS? Is it a recoil of Xience V at ostium of LM, which has resulted in ISR? For ISR of Xience V, what is the evidence to put same Xience V stent?
  • Hisham 2010-12-11 excellent teaching case
  • Seung-Jung Park 2010-12-13 If you look at the IVUS findings in detail, the restenosis was newly developed atherosclerosis above the proximal stent strut at LM ostium. And so, we covered another lesion with same DES.

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