Stent
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A London dentist, Charles Stent, devised a little metal structure to hold in place gingival grafts.[1]A wire or other tube used to hold open a tubular organ. With advances in metallurgy we now have self-expanding metal stents (SEMS).
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Most commonly used in coronary arteries, but also in the common bile duct, ureters and trachea and in palliation of GI malignancies, e.g. oesophageal and colonic carcinoma (colonic self-expanding metal stents).
Drug-eluting stents
Web Resources for Stent
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UK Guidance
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Medpedia on Stent (Less technical, good quality control)
Wikipedia on Stent (Less technical, ? quality control)
A type of stent where a coating releases a drug. This might be an antimicrobial substance or with vascular stents a drug with anti-proliferative properties.
In the indication of percutaneous coronary intervention second generation everolimus-eluting stents are superior to paclitaxel-eluting stents[2]. Sirolimus-eluting stents seem better than paclitaxel-eluting stents in non-diabetics[3].
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References
- ↑ http://blogs.bmj.com/2007/03/12/nejm-8-mar-2007-vol-356/#more-150
- ↑ Stone GW, Midei M, Newman W, Sanz M, Hermiller JB, Williams J, Farhat N, Caputo R, Xenopoulos N, Applegate R, Gordon P, White RM, Sudhir K, Cutlip DE, Petersen JL. Randomized comparison of everolimus-eluting and paclitaxel-eluting stents: two-year clinical follow-up from the Clinical Evaluation of the Xience V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System in the Treatment of Patients with de novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions (SPIRIT) III trial. Circulation. 2009 Feb 10; 119(5):680-6.(Link to article – subscription may be required.)
- ↑ Chiu M, Ko DT, Austin PC, Cohen EA, Velianou JL, Goeree R, Blackhouse G, Tu JV. Paclitaxel versus sirolimus stents in diabetic and nondiabetic patients. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2009 Mar; 2(2):96-107.(Link to article – subscription may be required.)
