Your coronary arteries deliver oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle. Over time, plaque can build up in your coronary arteries and limit blood flow through them. This is known as coronary heart ...

A drug-eluting stent, or DES, is a small, metal mesh tube placed in a blocked coronary artery. The metal is coated in medicine and helps reopen your artery and keep it open. ‌ Stents are used to treat ...

Sirolimus-eluting stents reduce rates of restenosis and reintervention, as compared with uncoated stents. Data are limited regarding the safety and efficacy of such stents in primary percutaneous ...

Definitions of stent thrombosis that have been used in clinical trials of drug-eluting stents have been restrictive and have not been used in a uniform manner. The cumulative incidence of stent ...