Kyra Martin
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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Role of coronary drug-eluting stents in current clinical practiceSubscription
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has continued to evolve, from its origins in balloon angioplasty and bare metal stent (BMS) implantation, to the development and application of contemporary drug-eluting stents (DESs). While first generation DESs significantly decreased risk of in-stent restenosis observed with BMSs, their use was complicated by late and very late stent thrombosis. Second generation DESs have dramatically decreased this risk and the rate of one-year stent thrombosis is