The impact of overlap of drug-eluting stents on clinical and angiographic outcomes is controversial. Individuals with long coronary lesions requiring implantation of multiple stents are an ...

An average of 1.4 stents were implanted per target lesion, with overlapping stents in 28 percent of patients. Quantitative Coronary Angiography The dimensions of the lesion at base line were ...

Currently available DES have maximum stent lengths in the low-30-mm range. "As soon as you need to go beyond that, you need to overlap stents, and there are multiple issues associated with ...

The impact of using a single stent to cover all of the lesion or the use of multiple overlapping stents was also associated with a better outcome in SES-treated patients ( Table 3).

Moreover, overlapping stents were implanted in relatively few patients in this trial, and thus, further study is required to evaluate the treatment of lesions that are longer than 28 mm, ...

A novel 48-mm stent for the treatment of diffuse de novo coronary artery lesions was found to be safe and effective at 1 year, with a high level of device deliverability, a speaker reported.The ...

Study finds one compressed stent is sometimes more effective than two overlapping stents for brain aneurysms. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter.

Overlapping of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds was linked to increased rates of periprocedural MI but no immediate or long-term effects on cardiac death, target lesion revascularization or stent ...

Pooled-analysis of five clinical trials found that patients requiring treatment with two or more overlapping stents for long artery blockages experienced better outcomes when receiving CYPHER ...