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SUBMITTER: Foussas SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2532965 | biostudies-other | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Foussas S G SG Tsiaousis G Z GZ
Hippokratia 20080101 1
The choice of optimal revascularization strategy in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is becoming more challenging lately, due to recent advances in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). On one hand, drug-eluting stents (DES) have emerged as a solution to the problem of restenosis after balloon angioplasty or bare-metal stent implantation, which was responsible for a higher rate of events (mainly repeat revascularization) in relati ...[more]