Coronary Stents

Cardiac Stents May Have Tingling Effect on Some Patients

Published in Cardiovascular Week, October 22nd, 2007

Coronary stents are commonly used to open blocked arteries of patients with coronary artery disease. Increasingly, stents that release a drug that prevents recurrent narrowing of the coronary stents are used, and may cause numbness and tingling in some patients.

Paclitaxel-eluting stents (PESs) are commonly used to delivery the drug directly to the wall of the coronary artery and limit the growth of scar within the stents. Paclitaxel is a microtubule-stabilizing agent also used in the treatment of ovarian and breast cancer and its principal adverse effect is a sensory neuropathy.

A 65-year old man presented with symmetric numbness in all his...

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