Drug-eluting stents (DES) have been viewed as a great advance over earlier stents and balloon angioplasty because they result in many fewer cases of restenosis. But enthusiasm for the first generation of DES was somewhat curbed due to reports of late stent thrombosis (ST), a rare but very dangerous complication. Now findings from a large ongoing registry study provide some reassurance about the long-term safety of the new generation of drug-eluting stents in patients with heart attacks (STEMI). The results are published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
SCAAR (Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry) investigators analyzed data from 34,000 primary PCI patients who received a bare-metal stent, an old-generation DES, or a new-generation DES.
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