... binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of a bare metal stent in heart attack patients. The results ... rate of 10.0% and the bare metal stent had a rate of 22.9%.
"These results provide ...
... heart attacks, when compared with those who received bare metal stents, but no significant difference in the incidence ... half year follow up, drug-eluting stents are safe among patients in a real-world ...
Drug-eluting stents were safe and superior to bare metal stents in preventing death and heart attacks among 262,700 "real-world" patients enrolled in a nationwide registry of cardiovascular disease.
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 ...
... binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of bare-metal stents after one year. Additionally, the primary safety ... rate of 10.0 percent and the bare-metal stent had a rate of 22.9 percent ...
... a drug-eluting stent (paclitaxel) was safer and more effective than a bare-metal stent; and that the administration of the anticoagulant medication bivalirudin enhanced safety and efficacy compared ...
... Institute, tracked every article written about stents in biomedical literature in 2006. He found 746 ... of a heart attack. There are basically two types of stents: bare metal stents and drug-eluting ...
... averaging $16,000 -- outpaces that of a bare metal stent, which costs about $14,000, the Penn ... per patient treated with drug-coated stents. Overall, researchers found that patients with drug-eluting ...
... increase the risk of death, compared to bare-metal stents, according to a study in the June 25 issue ... 086 similar patients who underwent coronary stenting from September through December 2003, when 61 ...
LEBANON, N.H., June 30 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say the increasing use of drug-releasing coronary artery stents does not increase the risk of death, compared with bare-metal stents.
... water after 6-9 months leaving only the metal mesh behind, more closely resembling a bare metal stent.
"The results from LEADERS are significant, as they demonstrate for the first time that a drug- ...
... 13.6 percent.
"Further research on the stent is being performed in a two-armed study, the TRIAS ... LR, the EPC-capturing stent is being compared with the bare-metal stent in patients with a low risk ...
... outcomes one year later than patients with bare metal stents, according to a new study to be published in CMAJ ... study findings suggest that drug eluting stents, despite recent concerns surrounding drug ...
... Researchers found that 51 percent of patients with the bare-metal stent had re-narrowing of the vein graft ... compared with 9 percent of the drug-eluting stent group. In addition, 28 percent of patients ...
... bypass surgery may carry less risk of serious complications if stents coated with a drug that suppresses cell growth are used in the procedure rather than bare-metal stents, scientists have found.
