Cardiac stents generally do not cause heart rupture, but coronary artery disease itself can cause heart rupture and require open-heart repair surgery to treat.
When acute myocardial infarction occurs in patients with coronary artery disease, localized myocardial ischemia and necrosis will result in localized dilatation and thinning of the myocardium, which will eventually lead to heart rupture. Cardiac stenting, on the other hand, is a means of treating coronary artery disease by implanting stents into the coronary arteries to dilate the blood vessels and ensure the blood supply to the heart muscle, which may cause rupture of the coronary arteries of the heart, but generally does not cause rupture of the heart.
When a patient suffers a heart rupture, emergency open heart surgery to relieve cardiac tamponade and repair the heart rupture in a timely manner is the only effective treatment to save the heart from rupture. Rupture of the heart is very dangerous, but its incidence is small.
Patients with coronary artery disease need to have regular checkups and take medications such as aspirin and atorvastatin as prescribed by their doctors.