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Treatment of cardiovascular diseases has gone a long way. Minimally invasive treatment is becoming the trend which improves every year. The era of opening coronary artery blockages with the use of plain balloons was replaced with bare metal stents deployment and now with drug eluting stents.
Stents are metal scaffoldings that are being placed inside the blocked artery to keep it open. Technology improved the stent system by coating it with a drug mainly sirolimus (Cypher stent) or paclitaxel (Taxus stent). These drug coated stents or drug eluting stents (DES) brought down the incidence of restenosis (return of the blockage) rate to less than eight percent in comparison to the previous technology of as high as 50 percent.
The UST Cardiac Catheterization lab offers angioplasty using the drug eluting stent technology.
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