Dubbed the "SCAAR scare," data presented in Barcelona in 2006 first raised alarms about the risk of stent thrombosis with DES. Fittingly, in Barcelona again, new data offer reassurances.

The first SCAAR report in 2006 showed increased mortality and stent thrombosis with drug-eluting stents during 2003 and 2004, leading to a sharp contraction in sales of the then-novel devices.

A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine (May 7, 2009) (1), analysed the outcomes of 47,967 patients entered into the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry ...

MEDICAL HISTORIES - The final instalment in our short series discusses the evolution of evidence-based medicine. Like bleeding, doctors’ intuition was a central part of medical practice until it ...