Drug-coated stents could boost death rate in heart attack patients
Drug-coated stents increased the risk of death in certain heart attack patients by nearly five times according to a recent study presented at the meeting of the European Society of Cardiology in Vienna. “Patients are now very wary about these stents,” lead researcher Gabriel Steg said. “Personally, I don’t use these stents in heart attack patients any longer.”
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