Xacobe Flores-Ríos, Juan P Abugattás-de Torres, Rosa Campo-Pérez, Pablo Piñón-Esteban, Guillermo Aldama-López, Jorge Salgado-Fernández, Ramón Calviño-Santos, José M Vázquez-Rodríguez, Nicolás Vázquez-González, Alfonso Castro-Beiras
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the difference in the risk of stent thrombosis between drug-eluting stents (DES) and bare-metal stents (BMS) and to assess the clinical implications. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of two cohorts of patients treated at our center with either > or =1 paclitaxeleluting stents (PES) (n=430) or > or =1 BMSs (n=1230) during 2003-2004 was carried out using propensity score methods to compare the adjusted risks of stent thrombosis, instent restenosis, cardiovascular death, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and target-lesion revascularization with the two stent types...
May 2010: Revista Española de Cardiología