Originally Published Med-Tech Precision Spring 2008
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DES Safe for Heart Attack Patients, Study Finds
A study presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting in early April found that drug-eluting stents are safe for heart-attack patients and may help their chances of survival.
The Harvard Clinical Research Institute studied a database of more than 7,000 patients in Massachusetts. Those who received a drug-eluting stent were less likely to die or need a repeat procedure than those who received a bare-metal stent.
Heart attacks caused by clots, deemed a risk from drug-eluting stents in earlier studies, were about the same in both groups.
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