Population
265 patients with congenital heart disease who had stents implanted from 1990 to 2006 and subsequent…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
4.2 +/- 3.3 years
Authors
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RV-PA conduit stents show higher fracture rates; hypothesis-generating for embolization risk and targeted surveillance in congenital interventions.
Stent fractures in congenital heart disease are rare and typically asymptomatic, except in RV-PA conduits where they are more frequent and carry a risk of embolization.
Breinholt et al. (2008) studied this question.
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