Multiple Overlapping Drug-Eluting Stents to Treat Diffuse Disease of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery
Eleftheria Tsagalou, MD*,
Alaide Chieffo, MD*,
Ioannis Iakovou, MD ,
Lei Ge, MD ,
Giuseppe M. Sangiorgi, MD ,
Nicola Corvaja, MD ,
Flavio Airoldi, MD*,
Matteo Montorfano, MD*,
Iassen Michev, MD* and
Antonio Colombo, MD, FACC*, ,*
* San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Columbus Hospital, Milan, Italy

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Figure 1 Diffuse disease of the left anterior descending coronary artery (A) treated with three sirolimus-eluting stents (B). Angiographic follow-up at six months with focal in-stent restenosis is shown (C).
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Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier estimates of cumulative survival free from major adverse cardiac events (continuous line) and free from death and myocardial infarction (dotted line).
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