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Article: News about drug-coated stents.(post surgery disorder after angioplasty)
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- HealthFacts
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- December 1, 2007
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The bad news about this topic originally came from the World Congress of Cardiology in September 2006. Presented at this international conference were clinical trials that found a slightly increased risk of death and a higher rate of potentially fatal blood clots in people who had drug-coated stents implanted during a coronary-artery-opening procedure called angioplasty. The trials compared them with other heart patients whose constricted coronary arteries were propped open with stents not coated with a drug.
The higher risks among those given drug-coated stents did not show up until four years of follow-up. These complications were confirmed in two separate ...