Heavy Metals

Study Data from University of Kiel Update Understanding of Heavy Metals

Published in Blood Weekly, February 16th, 2012

2012 FEB 16 -- According to the authors of recent research from Bad Segeberg, Germany, "Despite widespread penetration of drug-eluting stents (DES) in clinical practice, a relevant percentage of patients with coronary artery disease are still treated with bare-metal stents (BMS). Contemporary BMS, however, are less well investigated and comparative data on clinical outcome are lacking."

"This single-center registry aimed to assess characteristics and outcome of patients treated with 2 different new-generation cobalt-chromium BMS, the MULTI-LINK VISION and PRO-Kinetic stents. During the study, adopted criteria for BMS selection were: (1) limited compliance...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2012-02-16)

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