Key result
Left main coronary artery stents migrated into the aorta in a 22-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension.
This case report highlights a rare complication of left main coronary artery stent migration into the aorta.
Alerts clinicians to rare stent migration risk in pulmonary hypertension; leaves open optimal stenting strategies in this population.
A 22-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension presented with displacement of stents that had been implanted in the left main coronary artery and had migrated into the aorta. She had been referred to our center for evaluation for lung transplantation.
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Adigopula et al. (2015) studied this question. Left main coronary artery stents migrated into the aorta in a 22-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension.
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