Abstract

Optimal stent design: past, present and future

Author(s): PP Karjalainen, W Nammas & JKE Airaksinen

The advancement of coronary stents has already come a long way since their first introduction in the mid-1980s. Coronary stent implantation has become the standard of care of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), offering a safer strategy of coronary dilatation and securing a better outcome at short- and long-term follow-up, compared with ‘plain old’ balloon angioplasty.