Hold the Stent Please
For some time now, drug-eluting stents have been associated with a higher risk of blood clots (late stent thrombosis). Stents are tiny metal mesh cylinders which prop open a coronary artery that has been reopened by an angioplasty balloon, and drug-eluting stents go a step further by slowly releasing a drug into the artery that prevents reclogging due to tissue regrowth (restenosis).













