Gregg W Stone, MD
July 25th, 2012
DES in Patients at Low Risk for TVR: Is the Benefit Worth the Cost? (Part I)
Gregg W Stone, MD, John A. Bittl, M.D., David Kandzari, MD, Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD
In a recent article in Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers performed an analysis of current use of drug-eluting stents (DES) in patients at various levels of risk for target-vessel revascularization (TVR), and estimated the cost and clinical outcomes of using BMS rather than DES in patients at low risk (see News). To gauge reaction to […]
September 20th, 2010
What Does Gregg Stone Most Want to See at TCT This Year?
Gregg W Stone, MD
CardioExchange asked Gregg Stone, Director of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 meeting, what he thinks will be the three most important trials or topics presented at this year’s conference. The most important and impactful trial is undoubtedly the PARTNER trial, which is a large randomized trial of transcatheter aortic valve implantation compared to medical therapy […]
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