Drug-coated stents may cause rare allergic reactions

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: December 13, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Stents that are coated with a drug to reduce scarring and narrowing of the blood vessel may cause rare but potentially fatal allergic reactions in some patients, say researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration and the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Their study was released recently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Stents are the tiny, metal mesh tubes implanted during angioplasties to keep a cardiac vessel open. Over time, the traditional stents tended to scar so that narrowing recurred. Two years ago, several manufacturers ...

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