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Ioannis Iakovou
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3 years ago
Stent thrombosis (ST) is the sudden occlusion of a stented coronary artery due to thrombus formation. The clinical consequences of ST are frequently catastrophic – most episodes occur within two weeks of stent implantation – and include death in 20–48% or major myocardial infarction (MI) in 60–70% of cases.1–3 When bare-metal stents (BMS) were first introduced, ST was a common complication…
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Peter J Fitzgerald
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Martin B Leon
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3 years ago
An unintended consequence of the market success of drug-eluting stents has been a growing concern about their safety and safety-related costs. These devices have been so quickly and widely adopted that their market penetration already equals that of some of the most popular pharmaceutical drugs. Consequently, the absolute significance of even a low incidence of side effects becomes magnified by…
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Maki Komiyama
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Koji Hasegawa
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3 years ago
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has generated a pandemic that has heavily affected the global population, with more than 5.2 million infected and more than 337,000 deaths worldwide recorded between the end of 2019 and 24 May 2020.1 In the absence of vaccines or specific targeted treatments, strategies to…
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Ronald K Binder
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Ahmed A Khattab
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3 years ago
The treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has substantially improved in recent decades. Thrombolysis, the former first-line therapy, which is inexpensive and may be administered without noteworthy delay in primary care or pre-hospital settings, has been replaced by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) despite the inherent delay of transfering patients to a cardiac…
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Line Melgaard
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Coronary Arteries and Sirolimus-eluting Stents - Applications, Benefits and Future Potential
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Ricardo Seabra-Gomes
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3 years ago
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Rita Paniccia
Job title: University Researcher
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Author(s):
Olaf Schouten
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Don Poldermans
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3 years ago
Percutaneous coronary angioplasty with stenting is commonly used for treatment of symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD). The introduction of stents has reduced the incidence of restenosis, one of the major drawbacks of coronary angioplasty, and proved to be an alternative treatment for bypass surgery. Recently, drug-eluting stents were introduced as a means to lower restenosis rates even…
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Author(s):
Dae-Hyun Lee
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José M de la Torre Hernández
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3 years ago
When Andreas Grüntzig introduced balloon coronary angioplasty in 1977 it represented the first alternative to coronary artery bypass graft surgery. However, balloon dilatation had inherent limitations – including elastic recoil and vessel closure in the acute phase, as well as negative remodelling and restenosis in the late phase – which limited its applicability and further expansion. In the…
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Davide Capodanno
Job title: Professor of Cardiology and Interventional Cardiologist
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