August 15th, 2011
Drug Eluting Stents: It Pays To Be Picky
Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD
Why buy the most expensive stent when the cheaper one works just as well? Two recent studies suggest that a more selective use of stents has merits. In an analysis of pooled data from 4 trials (SPIRIT II-IV and COMPARE) comparing the more-expensive everolimus-eluting stent (EES) with the less-expensive paclitaxel eluting stent (PES), Stone and colleagues identified a […]
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