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Editorial
. 2017 May;89(6):992-993.
doi: 10.1002/ccd.27073.

Drug Eluting Stents for Very Long Lesions: Go Long, But Know the Risks

Charles E Beale  1 , J Dawn Abbott  1
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Editorial

Drug Eluting Stents for Very Long Lesions: Go Long, But Know the Risks

Charles E Beale et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2017 May.

Abstract

Long coronary artery lesions are increasingly treated with new technologies including current generation drug eluting stents (DES) despite a lack of robust data on outcomes. In the current study, patients receiving Xience V DES for very long lesions (>35 mm) compared to lesions 25-35 mm had similar outcomes. Future research should address late outcomes, stent thrombosis rates, as well as investigation of lesions greater than 60 mm.

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