Oct 23, 2013 | Cardiology, Endovascular, Heart Disease, Surgery, Vascular Health
A recent article in the financial press (Bloomberg) drew wide attention to inappropriate and excessive use of stents in patients with coronary artery disease (disease in the vessels that supply blood to the heart). Stents are tiny mesh tubes placed in a diseased coronary artery to “prop” it open after a narrowed segment of it has been expanded by a balloon. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Surgery
The FREEDOM clinical trial, a study of 1,900 diabetic patients, just reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that diabetics with multi-vessel coronary disease who were treated with coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) fared much better than those treated with angioplasty with drug-eluting stents (percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI.) (more…)
A recent article in the financial press (Bloomberg) drew wide attention to inappropriate and excessive use of stents in patients with coronary artery disease (disease in the vessels that supply blood to the heart). Stents are tiny mesh tubes placed in a diseased coronary artery to “prop” it open after a narrowed segment of it has been expanded by a balloon. (more…)