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Article: Late thrombosis haunts drug-eluting stents.(Cardiovascular Medicine)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- March 15, 2005
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Drug-eluting stents now dominate most applications of coronary artery stenting because they dramatically cut the rate of restenosis. But a new issue has emerged: late thrombosis.
Until more data are collected to better define the late-thrombosis risk, concern about this complication will haunt drug-eluting stems and dampen their use.
Late thrombosis occurs when a thrombus forms within a stent and abruptly closes the coronary artery a month or more after the stent was placed, a time when bare-metal stents are generally believed to have become a benign part of a patient's vasculature.
"Late thrombosis has been extremely rare with bare-metal ...