It was reported that death occurred.The patient was admitted to the emergency room with chest pain.During the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedure, the patient started having ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (vt/vf).Shocks were given to revive the patient and, following pre-dilation with a 2mm balloon, the 2 x 2.50 promus premier select drug-eluting stent was implanted without any issues to restore flow to the left anterior descending artery.Regular vt/vf episodes happened.The patient went into sudden cardiac arrest and died.The physician did not consider the device to have contributed to the patient death.
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