Do sirolimus-eluting stents improve outcomes compared with bare metal stents in coronary bifurcation lesions?
Sirolimus-eluting stents offer improvement over bare metal stents for coronary bifurcation lesions, but side branch restenosis remains a challenge.
These results are an improvement compared with historical controls using bare metal stents. Restenosis at the SB remains a problem. At this time, no statement can be made regarding the most appropriate technique to use when treating bifurcations with the Cypher stent.
Colombo et al. (Tue,) studied this question.