Drug-eluting Stents Prove More Effective, Equally As Safe As Bare-metal Stents

Researchers have compared the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents. The study showed that in heart attack patients undergoing angioplasty, the use of paclitaxel-eluting stents reduces rates of target lesion revascularization (TLR) and binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of bare-metal stents after 1 year.

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