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Technological Advances in Stent Therapies: a Year in Review

  • Coronary Artery Disease (D Feldman and V Voudris, Section Editors)
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Stent technology has rapidly evolved since the first stainless steel bare metal stents with substantial developments in scaffolding, polymer, drug choice, drug delivery, and elution mechanisms. Most recently, there has been the evolution of bioabsorbable vascular scaffolds, potentially eliminating the need for long-term foreign object retention. These rapid developments have led to an ever-expanding selection of new stents, making the choice of which to use in which patient challenging. Operators must balance potential short- and long-term clinical ramifications, namely stent thrombosis, in-stent restenosis, target lesion revascularization, and target lesion failure. In this review, we hope to provide insight for interventional cardiologists on the details of stent technology and how this impacts outcomes, stent selection, and duration of dual-antiplatelet therapy duration post drug-eluting stent implantation.

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  1. St. Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA

    Jad Raffoul MD, Ammar Nasir MD & Andrew J. P. Klein MD, FACC, FSCAI

  2. John Cochran Division - Veterans Administration Saint Louis Health Care System, Saint Louis, MO, USA

    Ammar Nasir MD

  3. Interventional Cardiology, Vascular and Endovascular Medicine, Piedmont Heart Institute, 275 Collier Road Suite 500, Atlanta, GA, 30309, USA

    Andrew J. P. Klein MD, FACC, FSCAI

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Raffoul, J., Nasir, A. & Klein, A.J.P. Technological Advances in Stent Therapies: a Year in Review. Curr Treat Options Cardio Med 20, 36 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11936-018-0630-2

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