Myocardial Infarction

Medicated stents appear more effective than traditional stents

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, May 30th, 2005

A type of coronary artery stent that releases a medication appears to result in better outcomes than traditional stents for heart attack patients, according to a new study.

Sirolimus, a substance that is thought to help prevent reclosure of coronary arteries, can be released from certain types of stents to greatly reduce the need for target-vessel revascularization (TVR) compared with bare-metal stents (i.e., stents without medication).

These drug-eluting stents have the potential to further improve long-term clinical outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), such as angioplasty. However, the lack of randomized trials to assess...

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