Summary:
Angioplasty opened the stenotic coronary artery but faced
complication like abrupt vessel closure. Deployment of bare
metal stent within the lesion solved the problem but another
complication like restenosis emerged. Neointimal
hyperplasia and vessel wall remodeling were identified as the
underlying mechanism and lead to the development of drug
eluting stent. In the selected patient group, drug eluting stent
(sirolimus and paclitaxel) are proved to be extremely
promising in respect to reduction of target vessel failure,
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