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Drug-coated stents are just as good as bare-metal stents, but ...

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Drug-coated stents are just as good as bare-metal stents, but ...(Report)

Article Excerpt
Drug-coated stents, intended to keep coronary arteries from closing up again, have been under suspicion for causing harm to people years after they had an artery-opening procedure. In earlier studies, the powerful drugs used to coat the tiny wire-mesh cylinders known as stents, were linked to a slightly higher rate of death and potentially fatal blood clots. A new study of Swedish people who were implanted with either a bare-metal stent or a drug-coated stent appears to exonerate the latter.

While this is good news for people who already had a drug-coated stent implanted, it should not distract from the fact that too many Americans continue to undergo artery-opening procedures for non-emergency heart conditions that can be just as successfully treated with drugs alone.

The Swedish study was led by Stefan K. James,...

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