Recently, the use of drug coated stents, which apparently are quite popular, are found to give way to severe diseases.
These stents are tiny and wire-mesh tubes. The risk of possible fatal blood clots can rise with the use of drug coated stents aided to open diseased arteries.
The patients making use of it are highly prone to heart diseases as well as to death as compared to those using bare stents.
The implantation of drug stents leads to narrow down the arteries, thereby preventing arterial scarring.The problem becomes severe with late stent thrombosis which prolonged after long inceptive treatment.
Via:reuters