What Are Drug-Eluting Stents? Risks, Benefits and More - WebMD
Feb 11, 2024 · Drug-eluting stents have benefits for heart disease. They can help lower plaque buildup in your arteries and increase blood flow to your heart. This can ease chest pain.
Drug-eluting stent - Wikipedia
A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a tube made of a mesh-like material used to treat narrowed arteries in medical procedures both mechanically (by providing a supporting scaffold inside the artery) …
Drug Eluting Stent Compounds - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Jul 4, 2023 · Drug-eluting stents (DES) are vascular prostheses used by interventional cardiologists to reopen and maintain patent coronary arteries narrowed by arteriosclerosis. …
Do drug-eluting stents increase heart attack risk? - Mayo Clinic
May 14, 2024 · A drug-eluting stent is coated with a slow-release medicine to help stop blood clots from forming in a stent. Blood clotting in a stent can cause a future blockage, called …
Drug-Eluting Stents: How Do They Work? - Healthline
Mar 22, 2019 · Drug-eluting coronary stents can help prevent plaque buildup, promote good blood flow to your heart, and relieve chest pain. They may also lower your chances of having a heart …
Drug-Eluting or Bare-Metal Stents for Coronary Artery Disease
Sep 29, 2016 · Limited data are available on the long-term effects of contemporary drug-eluting stents versus contemporary bare-metal stents on rates of death, myocardial infarction, repeat...
Drug-Eluting Stent: A Review and Update - PMC - PubMed …
Jan 4, 2005 · However, neointimal hyperplasia occurring within the stent leading to in-stent restenosis is a main obstacle in the long-term success of percutaneous coronary intervention …
Drug-Eluting Stents | Circulation - AHA/ASA Journals
May 1, 2007 · Medication coats drug-eluting stents and reduces the chance of renarrowing, or restenosis, of the blood vessel. Because restenosis within the stented region of a heart artery …
Drug-Eluting Coronary-Artery Stents | New England Journal of …
Jan 17, 2013 · Drug-eluting stents are now implanted in more than 500,000 patients every year in the United States. 15 This review provides an overview of currently available devices, …
Drug-Eluting Stents: Technical and Clinical Progress - PMC
Drug-eluting stents (DES) demonstrated superior efficacy when compared to bare metal stents and plain-old balloon angioplasty and are nowadays used in almost all percutaneous …