Drug Eluting Stents: Higher Late Mortality in STEMI Patients Than Bare Metal: GRACE Registry Findings

Drug Eluting Stents: Higher Late Mortality in STEMI Patients Than Bare Metal: GRACE Registry Findings

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5 September 2007
Gabriel Steg

Gabriel Steg

Freek Verheugt

Freek Verheugt

REFERENCE: Hotline III, number 709, European Society of Cardiology Congress, 2007, 1-5 September, Vienna, AustriaGABRIEL STEG, Hôpital Bichat, ParisCOMMENT: FREEK VERHEUGT, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, NijmegenThe GRACE registry looking at over 60 000 patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction has shown that patients live longer if they receive bare metal stents than if they get drug eluting stents.Gabriel Stegpresented these latest data at the ESC meeting in Vienna. Sarah Maxwell discussed the findings with him.Freek Verheugtcomments on the interview with Gabriel Steg.