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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on June 26, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn304
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Biodegradable coating for drug-eluting stents—more than a facelift?

Kari O. Niemelä*

Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, FI-33521 Tampere, Finland

* Corresponding author. Tel: +358 3 247 5111, Fax: +358 3 247 4157, Email: kari.niemela@pshp.fi

This editorial refers to ‘Randomized trial of three rapamycin-eluting stents with different coating strategies for the reduction of coronary restenosis,’ by J. Mehilli et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn253

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Since its introduction 1977, percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PCI) has developed into the most common revascularization method of coronary artery disease (nearly 2 million procedures in Europe in 2003).1,2 Early complications of ‘plain old’ balloon angioplasty such as acute recoil and abrupt vessel closure were markedly reduced by bare metal stents (BMS; in 1987) providing mechanical scaffolding of the vessel.3 Metallic stents thereby not only reduced the need for emergency coronary artery bypass grafting to <0.5% but nearly halved high restenosis rates observed in up to 30–40% of patients within the first months after balloon angioplasty.4,5 Thereafter, 15 years were needed before the next . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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