Complications after angioplasty and stenting of coronary arteries in ischemic heart disease patients

: The authors have made an analysis of most frequent complications of angioplasty and stenting of coronary arteries in 1900 patients with various forms of ischemic heart disease. The mechanisms, pathomorphology, angiographic and clinical manifestations of such complications as dissection of the coronary artery intima, acute occlusion of the coronary artery, "no-reflow" syndrome, perforation and rupture of the coronary artery, acute thrombosis in the stent area and other complications are considered in detail. Special medical strategy, both therapeutic and surgical, is proposed for each case. The authors propose a number of prophylactic measures allowing to avoid the complications described or to minimize them. Intraoperative lethality in this group of patients was 0.5% (10 patients), during the first week after endovascular intervention 26 patients died (1.4%).