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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty has become the most frequently used method for myocardial revascularization.¹ The use of uncoated coronary-artery stents during percutaneous intervention has decreased the incidence of acute complications and improved the outcome of patients,² but restenosis within the stent compromises the long-term results. As a consequence, the prevention and treatment of in-stent restenosis have become priorities in interventional cardiology.

Drug-eluting stents, which markedly reduce in-stent restenosis,³ have relegated all other therapeutic approaches to the background. However, it is gradually emerging that rates of late restenosis after the use of drug-eluting stents are higher than initial experience suggested, particularly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Cardiology Department, University Hospital, Geneva.

This article was published at www.nejm.org on November 13, 2006.

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