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Spontaneous Collapse of Balloon Expandable Stent in Heavily Calcified Aorta

Balloon expandable stents (BES), which are made of stainless steel, are vulnerable to external compression, leading to deformation or collapse/fracture of the stents. In this report, two cases of complete collapse of BES are presented. In both cases, BES were placed in a heavily calcified aorta and...

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Autores principales: Kim, Taehwan, Ichihashi, Shigeo, Kozuki, Amane, Fujimoto, Daichi, Nagatomi, Satoru, Bolstad, Francesco, Shite, Junya, Kichikawa, Kimihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japanese College of Angiology / The Japanese Society for Vascular Surgery / Japanese Society of Phlebology 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32595798
http://dx.doi.org/10.3400/avd.cr.20-00015