Better Patient Outcomes With Drug Eluting Stents
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 06:15
in Health & Medicine
Patients receiving drug eluting stents -- 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.
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