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Article: Drug-coated stents may improve treatment of coronary artery disease.
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- Biomedical Materials
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Drug-coated stents may improve significantly the outcomes for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), according to results from a recent experiment on animals at the Mayo Clinic.
Scientists at Abbott Laboratories in the USA said the study, involving pigs, demonstrated that drug-coated stents lead to a 43% reduction in neointimal formation, or new tissue growth, with related improvement in internal vessel size. The study also showed no significant injury or inflammation within the treated artery.
Restenosis occurs in more than 20% of patients within six months of an angioplasty operation and requires additional procedures to reopen the artery. ...