Pulmonary Vein Stenosis and Drug-eluting Stents

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Posted by Justin Kuykendall on June 11, 2004 at 04:22:17:

My father, a 55 year-old male, also had cardiac ablation for his atrial fib; unfortunately, we did not know about the side effect of pulmonary vein stenosis.

A few months after the second aggressive ablation he began to develop pneumonia-like symptoms and got worse and worse. We later discovered he had severe pulmonary vein stenosis My dad had open-heart to do a pulmonary vein patch using the paricardium. This worked for about 2 months, but the veins began re-stenosing; they then sent him to UCLA medical center where they put in 4 stents in 3 veins and ballooned the 4th. These lasted for 6 months but the stents were not drug-eluting and began to close off again and his health was deteriorating. They re-ballooned the stents to open them up a week ago, but didn't want to re-stent because they felt that if they were not drug
eluting the would only close off again.

We are desperately looking for information on drug-eluting stents for the pulmonary veins. If you have any information on stents that are big enough for the pulmonary veins, we would greatly appreciate your help.

Also, if you or anyone you know has successfully dealt with pulmonary vein stenosis, please advise.

Thank you for your help.

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