PMID: 11901899Mar 21, 2002Paper

The best of 2001. Coronary angioplasty or post-interventional cardiology

Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux
J Puel

Abstract

RAVEL, a major advance, represents the cardinal event of the year, if not the last ten years. For the first time zero-rate restenosis has been obtained by the placing of a stent coated with a drug with cytostatic properties. This trial puts the first steps of focal chemotherapy delivered by an endoprosthesis into a clinical form. This spectacular result begs to be confirmed in the long term, as well as in the numerous angiographic forms of stenosis currently indicating the placing of a stent. Such a result in the preventive treatment of restenosis of course casts a shadow on the curative intrastent treatment of restenosis, and especially on intra-coronary radiation. In the areas of acute coronary syndromes, and more particularly of myocardial infarction, the trials of pharmacological interventions have multiplied, bringing scattered information which everyone will find of relevance, and which by the wide choice that they suggest, give the prescriber a real degree of freedom. CAPTIM reveals that the clinical results of pre-hospital lysis followed by angioplasty (usually pre-planned) are identical to those of a primary angioplasty. This is good news for the numerous patients who are victims of an MI far from a centre equipped wit...Continue Reading

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