Stents in coronary heart disease patients: review of the studies available

Abstract

The review presents the results of published randomized trials, registers, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews on the following clinical outcomes: mortality, incidence of repeat myocardial infarctions, repeat revascularizations and stent thromboses among patients with various forms of coronary heart disease, after implantation of noneluting, sirolimus-eluting and paclitaxel-eluting stents.

Keywords

• coronary stents
• coronary heart disease
• randomized trials
• register
• meta-analysis