Percutaneous coronary intervention has witnessed a number of instrumental breakthroughs resulting in improved clinical and angiographic outcomes. Coronary stenting has now surpassed balloon angioplasty as the main treatment strategy due primarily to a more predictable immediate success and a significantly lower risk of restenosis. Stent types have also noticeably changed over recent years with a shift from bare metal to drug eluting coatings. Despite improved outcomes with drug eluting stents however, their bare metal counterparts will continue to play a role for both clinical and economic reasons, at least for the foreseeable future.
Still a future for the bare metal stent? / Barlis, Peter; Di Mario, Carlo*. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 0167-5273. - ELETTRONICO. - 121:(2007), pp. 1-3. [10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.11.241]
Still a future for the bare metal stent?
Di Mario, Carlo
2007
Abstract
Percutaneous coronary intervention has witnessed a number of instrumental breakthroughs resulting in improved clinical and angiographic outcomes. Coronary stenting has now surpassed balloon angioplasty as the main treatment strategy due primarily to a more predictable immediate success and a significantly lower risk of restenosis. Stent types have also noticeably changed over recent years with a shift from bare metal to drug eluting coatings. Despite improved outcomes with drug eluting stents however, their bare metal counterparts will continue to play a role for both clinical and economic reasons, at least for the foreseeable future.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.