Cardiologists get wake-up call on stents.

摘要

For many cardiologists, the results serve as a wake-up call that they need to reevaluate how frequently they offer stenting (which has. slight risks associated with the intervention itself as well as stent-associated thrombotic events) as a first option for relief of stable angina. The data come from the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascu-larization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation (COURAGE) trial, reported here in March at the annual conference of the American College of Cardiology.