Over the past decade, drug-eluting stents (DES) have greatly transformed the field of interventional cardiology. Generally, three components are included in a DES system: a metal stent platform ...

Boston Scientific has recently reported the results of the Optical Coherence Tomography Drug Eluting Stent Investigation (OCTDESI)trial; part of the JACTAX stent program. [30] The JACTAX stent con ...

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 ...

did not outshine standard treatment with second generation drug-eluting stents (DES) as they were expected to, in a surprise ...

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 ...

The following is a summary of “Effectiveness and Safety of Ticagrelor Monotherapy After Short-Duration Dual Antiplatelet ...

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 ...