|
|
Article: Drug-Eluting Stents Outperform Bare Stents in Heart Attack.
- Article from:
- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 PR Newswire Association LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Anti-clotting drug tirofiban also edges abciximab
CHICAGO, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- New evidence from a large randomized study is answering important questions about the best approach to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with a type of heart attack known as ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In the study, drug-eluting stents outperformed bare-metal stents, and high-dose tirofiban, an anti-clotting medication, proved to be equally effective and have fewer side effects than the catheter lab standard, abciximab.
The study is being reported today in a Late-Breaking Clinical Trials session at the SCAI Annual Scientific ...