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Article: Drug-eluting stents improve outcomes in heart stent procedures.
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- October 12, 2003
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2003 OCT 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ECRI's technology assessment of published studies on the implantation of drug-eluting stents after angioplasty concluded that the rate of coronary artery restenosis (reblockage or renarrowing of the stented artery) was as much as 64 times lower than that of bare-metal stents.
The studies included in ECRI's analysis compared the effectiveness of drug-eluting stents, which are coated with either paclitaxel, a drug that inhibits cell growth, or sirolimus, an anti-inflammatory agent, to bare-metal (uncoated) stents. One sirolimus-eluting stent, manufactured by Cordis Corporation, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, received ...