After 2.5 years of non-stop racing, ultrathin-strut drug-eluting stents (DES) reached the finish line before 2nd generation thin-strut DES. The advantage was in terms of clinically justified lesion revascularization, while rates of infarction, stent thrombosis, cardiac death, and all-cause death were similar. After failure at trying to create new generations of DES based on drugs…