Hope for improved PCI outcomes in diabetic patients with the Abluminus stent
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Summary
Although huge progress has been made over the last four decades in percutaneous coronary intervention, the results in diabetic patients are still suboptimal, with higher rates of restenosis, target lesion revascularisation, vessel failures and mortality. Luca Testa, Roxana Mehran and Ashok Seth discuss the problems that interventional cardiologists face when treating these patients and explain how the novel drug-eluting stent Abluminus, which combines a sirolimus coated balloon with bioresorbable polymer sirolimus eluting stent, might offer hope…
This interview supported by Concept Medical was filmed at EuroPCR 2019: see more videos here…