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Home » Impact of Drug-Eluting Stents on Smaller Heart Vessels Could Add to Risk
Impact of Drug-Eluting Stents on Smaller Heart Vessels Could Add to Risk
January 5, 2007
A Swiss study published Jan. 2 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) found that “collateral function” — the functioning of small “collateral” heart vessels — is more severely impaired in patients implanted with drug-eluting stents than in those implanted with bare-metal stents six months after implantation.