Clinical outcomes of drug-eluting stent use in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction

Aim: Randomised trials using drug-eluting stents (DES) in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have shown mixed results, and excluded patients at the highest risk of adverse outcomes. We aimed to determine the real world clinical outcomes of DES and compare these with bare-metal stents (BMS) i...

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Main Authors: Gurvitch, R., Lefkovits, J., Warren, R., Duffy, S., Clark, D., Eccleston, D., Yan, B., Reid, Christopher, Brennan, A., Andrianopoulos, N., Ajani, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Ireland Ltd. 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12442