Beyond restenosis: Patients' preference for drug eluting or bare metal stents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess patients' perspective about factors associated with stent choice.

Background

Drug eluting stents (DES) markedly reduce the risk of repeat percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but necessitate a longer duration of dual anti-platelet therapy (DAPT) as compared with bare metal stents (BMS). Thus, understanding patients' perspective about factors associated with stent choice is paramount.

Methods

Patients undergoing angiography rated, on a 10-point scale, the importance (1 = not important, 10 = most important) of avoiding repeat revascularization and avoiding the following potential DAPT drawbacks: bleeding/bruising, more pills/day, medication costs and delaying elective surgery. The factor, or group of factors, that was rated highest by each pati

SUBMITTER: Qintar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5771426 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature