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Outcomes of Contemporary DES in Patients with Diabetes: Do They Render Freedom Obsolete?

Despite our high hopes for new-generation drug-eluting stents (DES), patients with diabetes still have a different prognosis,...

Everolimus-Eluting Stents Finally Have a Rival and Not Just a “Non-Inferior” Stent

In this large randomized trial, there were significant differences as regards both target-lesion failure and target-vessel-related infarction,...

Several Features Define a Hostile Neck in AAA patients, but Only One Makes the Difference

Patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and ≥ 30 mm neck diameter have 3 times higher...

Early Strut Coverage and Its Implications for Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-guided drug-eluting stent implantation improves early strut coverage compared with angiography-guided angioplasty. No difference...

AHA 2018 | New-Generation DES Are Similar to Second-Generation DES Beyond Polymer

Sirolimus-eluting stents with biodegradable polymer did not offer better outcomes compared with instant-classic (and undoubtedly valid) everolimus-eluting...

TCT 2018 | ABSORB IV: Much Life Left for Bioresorbable Scaffolds

Previous studies have documented higher rates of adverse events with bioresorbable scaffolds (ABSORB) compared with metallic drug-eluting...

TCT 2018 | ReCre8 Trial: Permanent Polymer and Zotarolimus vs. Polymer-Free Amphilimus

Polymer-free amphilimus-eluting stents are a novel technology combining sirolimus and long-chained fatty acids. This enhances the uptake...

TCT 2018 | BIONYX: Durable Polymer-Coated vs. Ultrathin-Strut, Bioresorbable Polymer-Coated DES

This work, presented at TCT 2018 and published simultaneously in The Lancet, is the first randomized study comparing...