Stent fracture is an emerging complication of coronary angioplasty as a result of the complex interplay between stent design, the stented segment, stent over-expansion, a long stent and tortuous and complex lesions including chronic totally occluded vessels and calcified lesions. Its temporal course may be acute as well as delayed, including totally asymptomatic restenosis, migration of the stent, vessel perforation, and stent thrombosis. Here, we report the case of a 60 year-old patient who

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... acute stent fracture of an Endeavour Resolute stent (zotarolimus-eluting stent 3 × 33 mm) in a fibrocalcific lesion causing vessel perforation which was successfully treated with restenting by another Endeavour Resolute stent (3 × 29 mm).