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First human experience with stent‐based ventricle‐to‐coronary artery bypass
Author(s) -
Boekstegers Peter,
Steinbeck Gerhard,
Bengel Frank M.,
Reichart Bruno,
Vicol Calin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.20095
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ventricle , asymptomatic , blood flow , coronary artery disease , artery , stent , coronary artery bypass surgery , diastole , stenosis , hemodynamics , blood pressure
Stent‐based ventricle‐to‐coronary artery bypass (VSTENT) has been shown experimentally to provide systolic instead of physiological diastolic blood flow directly from the left ventricle to a coronary artery distal to a high‐grade stenosis. We report on the first successful surgical implantation of a VSTENT in a patient with coronary artery disease. At 3‐month follow‐up, the VSTENT was patent and showed sufficient regional blood flow at rest with a significant flow reserve. In addition, the patient was asymptomatic during exercise testing. Though encouraging, these observations have to be confirmed and are the subject of an ongoing multicenter study. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2004;62:198–200. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.