Abstract:Angioplasty opened the stenotic coronary artery but faced complication like abrupt vessel closure. Deployment of bare metal stent within the lesion solved the problem but another complication like restenosis emerged. Neointimal hyperplasia and vessel wall remodeling were identified as the underlying mechanism and lead to the development of drug eluting stent. In the selected patient group, drug eluting stent (sirolimus and paclitaxel) are proved to be extremely promising in respect to reduction of target vesse… Show more
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