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摘要

Although drug-eluting stents are known to reduce the risk of reste-nosis, and hence the need for reintervention, in patients at high risk of 11 restenosis enrolled in randomised clinical trials, there is little 'real-life' data currently available. The COMPARE study (second-generation everolimus-eluting and paclitaxel-eluting stents in real-life practice) aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of second-generation everolimus and paclitaxel-eluting stents in real-life practice.rnOne thousand eight hundred patients were randomly assigned to treatment with either a Xience Vor a Taxus Liberte stent in a 1:1 ratio. Patients were unaware of which stent they had been assigned to. The primary endpoint was a composite of safety and efficacy (all cause-mortality, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularisation) within 12 months.