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Article: Long-term outcomes of patients receiving drug-eluting stents
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- January 20, 2009
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ABSTRACT
Background: We sought to establish the long-term safety of drug-eluting stents compared with bare-metal stents in a usual care setting.
Methods: Using data from a prospective multicentre registry, we compared rates of death and of death or repeat revascularization during 3 years of follow-up of 6440 consecutive patients who underwent angioplasty with either drug-eluting or bare-metal stents between Apr. 1, 2003, and Mar. 31, 2006.
Results: Drug-eluting stents were inserted in 1120 patients and bare-metal stents in 5320. The drug-eluting stents were selected for patients who had a greater burden of comorbid illness, including diabetes mellitus (32.8% v. 20.8% in the bare-metal ...