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Please help! what is the rate of restenosis of coronaries comparing the use of drug eluded & plain stents?
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Not simple: Kind of a complex question. Basically most of the studies were done with the 1st generation stents. There was a significant reduction in the need to retreat with drug eluting stents (DES) compared compared to bare metal stents (BMS) (an absolute difference of approximately 12% at four years). There was no significant difference in overall mortality between DES and BMS.
Answered 7/28/2014
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