Drug Eluting Stents... New Solutions Create New Problems

The pharmaceutical compounds on drug eluting stents inhibit the inflammatory and proliferative events of the normal healing response, but they also can result in too little tissue formation and prolonged or permanent inhibition of the formation of a confluent endothelial layer. Endothelial lining is nature's modulator of vascular homeostasis, an event necessary for a stable and durable healing response.

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