Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Cuenca

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    Implante de nueve stents farmacológicos para el tratamiento de una paciente diabética con enfermedad coronaria multiarterial
    (Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, 2010-04) Quizhpe Rivera, Arturo Ricardo; Maldonado, Galo; Abizaid, Alexandre; Ribamar Costa, Jose de; Souza nunez, Paulo Márcio; Ferez, Fausto; Mattos, Luis Alberto; Sousa, Amanda; Sousa, J. Eduardo; Staico, Rodolfo
    The incidence of diabetes mellitus has continuously risen in the recent years. Patients with this chronic condition have a higher risk to develop coronary artery disease. Unfortunately, due to the frequent diffuse involvement of multiple vessels, the long term outcomes after percutaneous intervention, either with catheter-balloon or bare metal stent, has always been poor and frequently inferior to cardiac surgery in this subset of patients. Recently, the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has brought enthusiasm to treat percutaneously patients with more complex disease. In this manuscript we report a successful percutaneous approach of an insulin dependent diabetic patient treated with multiple DES (Taxus™, Boston Scientific).