More Patients With Drug-coated Cardiac Stents Survive, Avoid Costly Follow-up Procedures
Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
Patients with drug-coated stents are less apt to die, have heart attacks or require extra stents or bypass surgery in the two years following placement of the stent, compared to those who receive bare metal stents, according to new research.
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