Implante de nueve stents farmacológicos para el tratamiento de una paciente diabética con enfermedad coronaria multiarterial

Abstract

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).