Late coronary stent thrombosis associated with exercise testing.

We report a case of coronary stent thrombosis that occurred 6 months after the primary stenting of the left anterior descending coronary artery for acute myocardial infarction in a 75-year-old man. The reinfarction occurred the day after the demonstration of persistent optimal result of the percutaneous coronary intervention and immediately after exercise testing. A combined approach of a mechanical thrombus burden reduction by using AngioJet thrombectomy with adjunctive glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonist was performed, resulting in the complete removal of filling defects on the angiography. Copyright 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.