Key result
Drug-eluting stents represent the most notable development in coronary artery stents, offering significant benefits alongside specific risks in modern interventional cardiology.
Why the study?
Coronary artery stent designs have developed significantly since their introduction, most notably with drug-eluting stents, prompting a review of their benefits, risks, and current status.
Design
Review paper
May favor drug-eluting stents for lower restenosis; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Coronary artery stents revolutionized the practice of interventional cardiology after they were first introduced in the mid-1980s. Since then, there have been significant developments in their design, the most notable of which has been the introduction of drug-eluting stents. This paper reviews the benefits, risks, and current status of Food and Drug Administration-approved drug-eluting stents.
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Garg et al. (2010) studied this question. Drug-eluting stents represent the most notable development in coronary artery stents, offering significant benefits alongside specific risks in modern interventional cardiology.
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