Drug Eluting Stents for Very Long Lesions: Go Long, But Know the Risks.
Charles E BealeJinnette Dawn AbbottPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2019)
Long coronary artery lesions are increasingly treated with new technologies including current generation drug eluting stents (DES) despite a lack of robust data on outcomes. In the current study, patients receiving Xience V DES for very long lesions (>35 mm) compared to lesions 25-35 mm had similar outcomes. Future research should address late outcomes, stent thrombosis rates, as well as investigation of lesions greater than 60 mm.