Drug Eluting Stent Shows Great Benefit in Chronic Total Occlusions

Drug Eluting Stent Shows Great Benefit in Chronic Total Occlusions

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3 September 2007

Gerald Werner REFERENCE: Abstract 925, European Society of Cardiology Congress, 2007, 1-5 September, Vienna, Austria GERALD WERNER, Klinikum Darmstadt, Germany The ESC congress in Vienna heard that dr

Gerald Werner

Gerald Werner

REFERENCE: Abstract 925, European Society of Cardiology Congress, 2007, 1-5 September, Vienna, AustriaGERALD WERNER, Klinikum Darmstadt, GermanyThe ESC congress in Vienna heard that drug eluting stents are highly effective in chronically occluded arteries, when compared with bare metal stents. Derek Thorne got more on this German study fromGerald Werner, of Klinikum Darmstadt in Germany.