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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

View larger version (64K): [in a new window]   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).

View larger version (9K): [in a new window]   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).