Coronary stents - A review

Drug eluting stents is the hottest topic in interventional cardiology today. Although they did not quite live up to the initial hype of preventing restenosis, drug eluting stents have significantly brought down the rates of instent restenosis. Cypher still reigns in supreme according to current data. Many new stents are being introduced and new drugs are being tested. You can get a bird's eye view of the scene and developments in the field of coronary stents in this review published in the New England Journal of Medicine.