Changing treatment patterns for coronary artery revascularization in Canada: the projected impact of drug eluting stents

Abstract

Background: To evaluate current treatment patterns for coronary artery revascularization in Canada and explore the potential impact of drug eluting stents (DES) on these treatment patterns.

Consenso de especialistas (SBC/SBHCI) sobre o uso de stents farmacológicos: recomendações da sociedade brasileira de cardiologia/sociedade brasileira de hemodinâmica e cardiologia intervencionista ao sistema único de saúde

“…Analyzing the coronary angiography of a significant series of consecutive patients submitted to surgery 41 , the authors confirm that if the inclusion criteria used in the clinical trials for drug-eluting stents had been followed strictly, only 6% would have been candidates for the procedure. However, during 2004, in the medical assessments made by cardiologists, as many as 46% of the patients indicated for surgical procedures would have been converted to PCI with drug-eluting stents.…”