Are Drug Eluting Stents Really Worth the Money?
REFERENCE: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Chicago, November 12-15, 2006. Abstract: 1949 (C207) Sunday page: 236 SANJAY KAUL, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles A strategy of unconditional substitution of bare metal with drug eluting stents is not cost-worthy, according to a study from Sanjay Kaul who recommended to delegates at the AHA conference that more selective use of drug eluting stents should be applied in the cath lab.