New Drug-Eluting Stents May Be As Safe As Bare-Metal Types

Research also shows second-generation drug-eluding stents are safer than their predecessors when it comes to preventing thrombosis.

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The first generation of drug-eluting stents (DES) that came along more than a decade ago were seen as promising tools in the treatment of coronary heart disease. But studies showed that DES raised the risk of stent thrombosis-blood clot formation at the site of the stent.
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