Finding a Lost Coronary Stent Months Later with Use of Multimethod Imaging

A 64-year-old man with refractory angina and a history of revascularization was referred after a failed attempt at revascularization. His medical regimen included maximal -blocker, calcium channel blocker, and nitrate therapy. Cineangiograms before contrast injection suggested asymmetric calcification of the proximal left circumflex coronary artery (LCx) and showed previously implanted stents in the distal vessel (Fig. A cineangiogram after contrast injection revealed a severe lesion in the ostium of the first obtuse marginal branch (OM) and patent stents