Drug eluting stents are superior to bare metal stents to reduce clinical outcome and stent ‐related complications in CKD patients, a systematic review, meta‐analysis and network meta‐analysis

Conclusions:DES in CKD patients undergoing PCI were superior to BMS in reducing major adverse clinical events. This was possibly explained, by a lower risk of stent‐related events as ST and TVR or TLR. Second, compared to 1st generation DES may furtherly reduce clinical events.

Source: Journal of Interventional Cardiology - December 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gabriele Crimi, Valeria Gritti, Vincenzo Alessandro Galiffa, Valeria Scotti, Sergio Leonardi, Maurizio Ferrario, Marco Ferlini, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Luigi Oltrona Visconti, Catherine Klersy Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research