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Drug-Coated Stents Reduce Repeat Artery Procedures
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 The Dartmouth study differed in one respect from a major study done at the University of Pennsylvania, which looked at 72,000 persons who got stents during a nine-month period in 2003. That study also found a reduction in the need for new artery-opening procedures, but it also found a reduction in overall mortality.
You wouldn't necessarily expect a reduction in mortality, because most people don't die of restonosis [reclosing of an artery], Garratt said.
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Last updated 6/25/2008
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SOURCES: David J. Malenka, M.D., cardiologist, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon N.H.; Kirk Garratt, M.D., clinical director of interventional cardiovascular research, Lenox Hill Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute, New York City; June 25, 2008, Journal of the American Medical Association
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