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Cardiovascular Research 2004 63(4):575-576; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.06.016
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Copyright © 2004, European Society of Cardiology

The Cypher stent: no longer efficacious at three months in the porcine model?

Antoine Lafont*

Hôpital Europén Georges Pompidou, INSERM E0016, Université Paris V, Paris Cedex 15, France

* Fax: +33 1 5609 2664. Email address: antoine.lafont@egp.ap-hop-paris.fr

Received 21 June 2004; accepted 21 June 2004

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See article by Carter et al. [2] (pages 617–624) in this issue.

Drug-eluting stents have represented one of the most exciting, innovative technologies, and the 0% restenosis rate has led to overwhelming enthusiasm in the medical world, even if a careful examination of the results did not show any effect on the occurrence of death and acute myocardial infarction [1]. The study of Carter et al. [2] in this issue of Cardiovascular Research brings a key message that tempers our enthusiasm, since they surprisingly discovered that, in the pig model, the Cypher stent failed to reduce restenosis at 3 and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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