The Journal of invasive cardiology
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Comparative Study
Clinical outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting vs. bare-metal stents in dialysis patients.
Late mortality among dialysis patients undergoing PCI with bare-metal stents is high. The impact of drug-eluting stent use on outcomes in such patients is unclear. ⋯ In this cohort of dialysis patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), drug-eluting versus bare-metal stent implantation was associated with enhanced freedom from 1-year MACE. Given previous bare-metal stent data indicating worse outcomes after PCI than after bypass surgery in dialysis patients, randomized trials comparing these strategies in the drug-eluting stent era are needed.