Late or very late stent thrombosis can also occur with bare metal stents

Abstract

The issue of late stent thrombosis (LAST) has become a subject of highly polemical debate over the past few months. Yet, both acute and LAST has always been a potential complication. The objective of this manuscript is to remind the readers, by means of two case reports, that thrombosis of bare metal stents may occur even very late after stent implantation. In the first case, stent thrombosis occurred after five years. In the second case, it occurred three years after the stenting procedure in a bare metal stent implanted in the circumflex artery of a patient who had also received two drug-eluting stents in the left anterior descending coronary artery.