My gut feeling is that ABC is attempting to stop the hemorrhaging and the rating decline,'' said David Miller, an analyst with Sander Morris Harris in Los Angeles. But my gut feeling is that I still think there is some kind of corruption in the game.
Current guidelines for patients on OAC undergoing PCI were drafted mainly on the basis of observational data and state that a minimum of 4 weeks of triple therapy after bare-metal stent (BMS) implantation and 1 to 12 months of therapy after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation should be considered 5; 6; 11 ; 12.
Compared with no stents, re-obstruction rates at six months after angioplasty were cut in half, to 20 percent, and few re-obstructions were seen more than a year after treatment. Drug eluting stents, or DES, were developed to try to further reduce the rate of re-obstruction.ore than a year after therapy, it may be a bit higher than with bare metal stents. Even though drug eluting stents have a higher re-obstruction rate, most studies go only four to five years after stenting and indicate that the risk of re-obstruction is generally about 1 to 2 percent for either type of stent.