Hotlines and Clinical Trial Updates - Long term mortality after drug eluting stents in Sweden - one additional year of follow-up
Conclusion:
With inclusion of one additional year, thereby doubling the number of DES treated patients and outcome events, the previously reported increase in mortality with drug eluting stents can no longer be observed. Still there remains a slightly raised risk of late stent thrombosis and reinfarction after 6 months, which is however compensated by a lower event rate during the first 6 months. The reduction of clinically relevant restenosis is lower than in randomized trials with mandated angiography at follow-up and amounts only to 4%.
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