'Drug-Free' Stent Coating Shows Promise (report. There is potentially lower chan...)

'Drug-Free' Stent Coating Shows Promise

Date:1/21/2008

report. "There is potentially lower chance of thrombosis."

But it's much too early to start drawing definitive conclusions about the new stents, Quesada said. "These are very preliminary data," he said. "We cannot make too much of it because the numbers in the trial are very small. This is an interesting observation, and we have to see the results of more trials."

Future trials would have to match results of angioplasty using existing drug-coated stents with the new polymer-coated stents, Tamburino said. Such trials would take years to produce definitive information, he said.

More information

You can learn more about stents from the American Heart Association.

SOURCES: Corrado Tamburino, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cardiology, University of Catania, Italy; Ramon Quesada, M.D., director of interventional cardiology, Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute of Miami; Jan. 21, 2008, meeting, International Symposium of Endovascular Therapy, Hollywood, Fla.

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