Coronary angioplasty: Back to the future
Puel and Sigwart, in 1986, deployed the first coronary stent to act as a scaffold preventing vessel closure reducing the incidence of angiographic restenosis. The first stents were bare metal stents. The first drug-eluting stents to be approved were coated with paclitaxel or sirolimus. Since these s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.j-pcs.org/article.asp?issn=2395-5414;year=2017;volume=3;issue=1;spage=44;epage=52;aulast=Patil |
| Summary: | Puel and Sigwart, in 1986, deployed the first coronary stent to act as a scaffold preventing vessel closure reducing the incidence of angiographic restenosis. The first stents were bare metal stents. The first drug-eluting stents to be approved were coated with paclitaxel or sirolimus. Since these stents came with a lot of promise but also with risk of thrombosis, the next step was biodegradable stents. These stents are expected to degrade into nontoxic byproducts. They came with a lot of fanfare but are now being viewed with caution because of initial poor results. We do not know what the future holds. |
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| ISSN: | 2395-5414 2454-2830 |