Comment on

• Short- and long-term outcomes with drug-eluting and bare-metal coronary stents: a mixed-treatment comparison analysis of 117 762 patient-years of follow-up from randomized trials.

  Bangalore S, Kumar S, Fusaro M, Amoroso N, Attubato MJ, Feit F, Bhatt DL, Slater J. Bangalore S, et al. Circulation. 2012 Jun 12;125(23):2873-91. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.097014. Epub 2012 May 14. Circulation. 2012. PMID: 22586281
• Stent thrombosis and major clinical events at 3 years after zotarolimus-eluting or sirolimus-eluting coronary stent implantation: a randomised, multicentre, open-label, controlled trial.

  Camenzind E, Wijns W, Mauri L, Kurowski V, Parikh K, Gao R, Bode C, Greenwood JP, Boersma E, Vranckx P, McFadden E, Serruys PW, O'Neil WW, Jorissen B, Van Leeuwen F, Steg PG; PROTECT Steering Committee and Investigators. Camenzind E, et al. Lancet. 2012 Oct 20;380(9851):1396-405. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61336-1. Epub 2012 Aug 27. Lancet. 2012. PMID: 22951082 Clinical Trial.
• Improved late clinical safety with zotarolimus-eluting stents compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents in patients with de novo coronary lesions: 3-year follow-up from the ENDEAVOR IV (Randomized Comparison of Zotarolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease) trial.

  Leon MB, Nikolsky E, Cutlip DE, Mauri L, Liberman H, Wilson H, Patterson J, Moses J, Kandzari DE; ENDEAVOR IV Investigators. Leon MB, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2010 Oct;3(10):1043-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2010.07.008. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2010. PMID: 20965463 Clinical Trial.
• J Thorac Dis. 60:B13.
• Endothelial cell recovery between comparator polymer-based drug-eluting stents.

  Joner M, Nakazawa G, Finn AV, Quee SC, Coleman L, Acampado E, Wilson PS, Skorija K, Cheng Q, Xu X, Gold HK, Kolodgie FD, Virmani R. Joner M, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Jul 29;52(5):333-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.04.030. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008. PMID: 18652940
• A bioabsorbable everolimus-eluting coronary stent system (ABSORB): 2-year outcomes and results from multiple imaging methods.

  Serruys PW, Ormiston JA, Onuma Y, Regar E, Gonzalo N, Garcia-Garcia HM, Nieman K, Bruining N, Dorange C, Miquel-Hébert K, Veldhof S, Webster M, Thuesen L, Dudek D. Serruys PW, et al. Lancet. 2009 Mar 14;373(9667):897-910. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60325-1. Lancet. 2009. PMID: 19286089
• J Thorac Dis. 59:E319.