The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) has become widespread as a result of their superior revascularization rates compared with those of bare-metal stents (BMS). 1 DES are increasingly being used ...
They include new data on trials comparing intracoronary stenting with CABG; however, advances in both percutaneous (e.g., drug-eluting stents) and surgical (e.g., robotics) techniques make these ...
A well-known example is the drug-eluting stent: originally stents were passive objects that kept blood vessels and other structures in the body, such as the trachea, open. In the late 1990s ...
However, traditional metal stents may cause restenosis-;a re-narrowing of the artery-;due to excessive smooth muscle cell proliferation one month after implantation. Drug-eluting stents are widely ...