title: Percutaneous coronary intervention: ever closer to real world silver bullets!?
abstract: Bare metal and early drug eluting stents have not meaningfully reduced subsequent rates of death and myocardial infarction compared to balloon angioplasty. Second generation drug eluting stents are associated with meaningful reductions in death and myocardial infarction compared to first generation drug eluting stents.
authors: Interventional Cardiovascular Section, Heart South Cardiovascular Group, Alabaster, Alabama; Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
authors: William B
authors: WB
authors: Hillegass
authors: Brigitta C
authors: BC
authors: Brott
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000517:prevention & control*; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention