Cardiovascular

Audio Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine: Sirolimus-Eluting Better Than Uncoated Stents for Primary Angioplasty

October 8, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Christian Spaulding

CHRISTIAN SPAULDING, Cochin Hospital, Paris

REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2006;355:1093, 1105,1169
Two leading articles in the same edition of the New England Journal of Medicine have investigated the use of drug-eluting stents in primary percutaneous coronary intevention in comparison with bare-metal stents. A group from Paris looked at the sirolimus-eluting stent, while a second group from Amsterdam investigated the paclitaxel-eluting stent. Sarah Maxwell talked with Christian Spaulding whose results showed an improvement in rates of target vessel revascularisation.

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