Following implantation of the first coronary stent in 1986 by Jacques Puel in Toulouse, coronary stenting has, from a sequence of pioneering registries in the late 1980's to an era of randomized trials in the 1990's, come to adopt a prominent role in today's practice of interventional cardiology. In its conventional naked metallic form, coronary stenting represents a mechanical approach to a biological problem. When appropriately deployed, the coronary stent can tack back dissections and restore normal flow in vessels with threatened or acute closure and provides a means to optimize elective angioplasty of primary and recurrent stenoses in both native coronary arteries and aorto-coronary vein grafts by enforced remodelling.

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Netherlands Heart Foundation
P.W.J.C. Serruys (Patrick)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Keane, D. (1995, June 14). Coronary stenting : a quantitative angiographic and clinical evaluation. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/21764