TY  - JOUR
T1  - OUtcomes in the era of bare-metal stents vs the era of drug-eluting stents
AU  - Beri A
Y1  - 2009/01/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2008.898
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 33
EP  - 34
VL  - 301
IS  - 1
N2  - 
To the Editor: I have a number of concerns about the study by Dr Malenka and colleagues1 on outcomes following stenting in the bare-metal stent era vs drug-eluting stent era, which concluded that there was a decline in the need for repeat revascularization procedures. First, the authors excluded patients with any percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass within 1 year. These patients were likely to have bare-metal stents since the drug-eluting stent cohort was from the years immediately after these stents were introduced. Thus, some cases with restenosis within a year were likely to have been left out.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.898
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2008.898
ER  -