DESs (drug-eluting stents) oust brachytherapy for the treatment of blocked bare metal stents
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Spelling the demise of vascular brachytherapy (VBT) as the standard treatment for bare metal coronary stents that have become blocked, two US studies have found that drug-eluting stents (DESs) outperform the radiation-based procedure in such cases.