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Current Bare-Metal Stents: Similar to DES in the Very Long-Term

Current Bare-Metal Stents: Similar to DES in the Very Long-Term

The largest randomized trial in history found no difference in the primary endpoint of death and nonfatal infarction between current conventional stents and drug-eluting stents at over 5 years in patients with stable or unstable coronary disease. As expected, NORSTENT did find a difference in revascularization rates between both groups.   This study presented at the

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