Better patient outcomes with drug eluting stents
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 04:56
in Health & Medicine
Patients receiving drug eluting stents (DES) — stents coated with medication to prevent narrowing of the artery — as part of an angioplasty had better outcomes one year later than patients with bare metal stents, according to a new study to be published in CMAJ.
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