Does elective intracoronary stenting improve clinical outcomes compared to provisional stenting or balloon angioplasty alone in patients with coronary artery disease?
Elective intracoronary stenting provides better clinical outcomes than balloon angioplasty alone or provisional stenting in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary revascularization.
Intracoronary stents have become an essential component of the catheter-based treatment of coronary artery disease. The evidence indicates that elective stenting, rather than provisional stenting or balloon angioplasty alone, improves clinical outcomes in the months following percutaneous coronary revascularization in a wide variety of clinical settings and lesion types. JAMA. 2000;284:1828-1836.
Jassim Al Suwaidi (Wed,) studied this question.