Cardiovascular

Drug Eluting Stent Shows Great Benefit in Chronic Total Occlusions

Gerald Werner
Gerald Werner

REFERENCE: Abstract 925, European Society of Cardiology Congress, 2007, 1-5 September, Vienna, Austria
GERALD WERNER, Klinikum Darmstadt, Germany
The ESC congress in Vienna heard that drug eluting stents are highly effective in chronically occluded arteries, when compared with bare metal stents. Derek Thorne got more on this German study from Gerald Werner, of Klinikum Darmstadt in Germany.

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