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Background—Diabetes mellitus and angiographic coronary artery disease complexity are intertwined and unfavorably affect prognosis after percutaneous coronary interventions, but their relative impact on long-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary ...
K. Koskinas+12 more
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Drug-eluting stents : Insights into safety and indications
Currently, more than 4 million patients receive drug-eluting stents worldwide. Despite recent studies and editorials that have stirred controversy and generated tremendous publicity in the lay press related to the safety of drug-eluting stents for the ...
Hassan Walid
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Drug eluting ureteral stent is an effective means for local drug delivery to the urinary tract. It can potentially solve a variety of upper urinary tract problems, such as stent-related urinary tract infections and discomfort, ureteral stricture, and ...
Hongli Shan+6 more
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AIMS Compared with bare metal stents, first-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) are associated with an increased risk of late restenosis and stent thrombosis (ST).
K. Yamaji+14 more
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Thrombosis prevention in percutaneous coronary interventions
The introduction of drug-eluting stents has been a major achievement of interventional cardiology. These stents demonstrate good clinical effectiveness and safety profile.
V. P. Lupanov, A. N. Samko
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Zotarolimus-eluting stent fracture at initial implantation diagnosed with StentBoost
Stent fracture is a rare complication of drug-eluting stent implantation with a reported rate of 0.84%–3.2% in various clinical studies with first-generation drug-eluting stents and 29% in autopsy studies.
Alev Arat Ozkan+2 more
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Long-term effectiveness and safety of sirolimus drug-eluting stents
Mahesh Bikkina, Jayanth KoneruSt Joseph Regional Medical Center, Paterson, Seton Hall University, NJ, USAAbstract: The root cause of coronary artery disease is atherosclerosis, ie, intraluminal narrowing (stenosis) of the arteries that supply blood to ...
Bikkina M, Koneru J
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Background Coronary artery aneurysms after drug eluting stents are rare. We present a case series of type II coronary aneurysms after implantation of Everolimus eluting stents including patients developing giant aneurysms with a toxic course.
Raghav Sharma+2 more
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Stent thrombosis in randomized clinical trials of drug-eluting stents.
BACKGROUND Definitions of stent thrombosis that have been used in clinical trials of drug-eluting stents have been restrictive and have not been used in a uniform manner.
L. Mauri+5 more
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Second Generation Drug-Eluting Stents: A Review of the Everolimus-Eluting Platform
Everolimus-eluting stents (EES) represent the next generation of drug-eluting stents (DES). Important design modifications include thin strut stent backbones, less inflammatory and more biocompatible polymers, and lower drug dosing.
Matthew G. Whitbeck, Robert J. Applegate
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