The incidence of diabetes mellitus has continuously risen over recent years. Patients with this chronic condition have a higher risk of developing coronary artery disease. Unfortunately, due to the frequent diffuse involvement of multiple vessels, the long term outcomes after percutaneous intervention, whether by balloon catheter or bare-metal stent, has always been poor and frequently inferior to cardiac surgery for this subset of patients. Recently, the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has brought new hope to treat patients with more complex diseases percutaneously. In this paper we report a successful percutaneous approach of a 63-year-old insulin dependent diabetic patient treated with nine DES (TaxusTM, Boston Scientific).
Coronary disease; Diabetes mellitus; Stents
