The survey provides a benchmark of European coronary revascularization practices during the bare metal stent era to evaluate the future impact of drug-eluting stents.
The current Euro Heart Survey on coronary revascularization was performed in the era of bare metal stenting and provides a global European picture of the invasive approach to patients with CAD. These data will serve as a benchmark for the future evaluation of the impact of drug-eluting stents on the practice of interventional cardiology and bypass surgery.
Lenzen et al. (2005) studied this question.