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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 8, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(8):918-919; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl554
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A look at drug eluting stents with optical coherence tomography

Bart J.G.L. de Smet* and Felix Zijlstra

Department of Cardiology, Thorax Centre, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31 50 3611347; fax: +31 50 3611347. E-mail address: b.j.g.l.de.smet@thorax.umcg.nl

This editorial refers to ‘Neointimal coverage of sirolimus-eluting stents at 6-month follow-up: evaluated by optical coherence tomography’{dagger} by D. Matsumoto et al., on page 961

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In the last year, following several publications in peer reviewed journals and presentations during the 2006 European Society of Cardiology congress,1 concerns have been raised about a possible increase in the incidence of death and myocardial infarction in patients treated with drug eluting stents (DESs) due to the occurrence of stent thrombosis. The incidence of stent thrombosis in the bare metal stent (BMS) era has become low after the introduction of dual antiplatelet therapy.2 Stent thrombosis in this . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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