Black patients may be more likely to experience stent thrombosis following implantation of a drug-eluting stent (DES), a US study has suggested. Researchers from Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC compared 1,594 black patients who underwent DES implantation with 5,642 ...
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Black DES recipients at higher risk of stent thrombosis – study
31 August 2010
Elizabeth Cairns
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