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The Rate of In-stent Restenosis Within Bare Metal Stents as Compared to Drug Eluting Stents in Patients With Patent Previously Deployed Bare Metal Stent
In Brief
An observational study for In-stent Coronary Artery Restenosis. Completed, enrolled 300 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Intra-coronary stents deployment reduces the rate of angiographic restenosis as compared to Balloon angioplasty. in-stent restenosis, usually defined as ≥50 percent diameter stenosis within previously deployed stent, is most often becoming clinically evident within the first 6 to 12 months after the stent was deployed. Several risk factors are predictors for the development of in-stent restenosis. These can be generally calcified as either clinical, angiographic or procedural related factors. However it is difficult to estimate to what extent In stent re-stenosis is influenced by these various components. Drug eluting stent, as compared to bare metal stents, markedly reduced the incidence of angiographic in-stent restenosis. However this benefit must be weighed against a suggested increased risk of late and very late stent thrombosis, a catastrophic event often leading to myocardial infarction and death. Often in patients with existing risk factors for in-stent restenosis, drug eluting stents will be deployed even in cases where patency of a previously deployed bare metal stent have been demonstrated. Therefore the researchers sought to investigate whether in patients with previously deployed bare metal stent and no evidence of in-stent re-stenosis there will be a significant difference in the rates of in-stent between drug eluting stents and bare metal stents deployed within de-novo stenotic lesions.