Hit a stents in patients with hospital records

hit a stENTs in patients with hospital records

end of last year, a bit of an old friend of nearly sixty and myocardial infarction caused by over-exertion, was sENT to the capital in a military hospital, after emergency treatment, the out of danger.After admission, the hospital for heart treatment by interventional placed a 10 a heart stENT, the move also created two of the hospital business records: a record is a single place 6 stENTs, used to be a single place most 5 stENTs; another single patient record is placed 10 a stENT, used to be placed in an individual patient the most 9 a stENT.Hospital experts will certainly be proud of, but that the risk of over-treatment by the patients have to bear! Interventional therapy for heart patients by stent implantation is a commonly used technique in recent years, but this technology has been abused in some hospitals.Under normal circumstances, this number of implanted stents should not more than three, however, many hospitals to increase revenues, often induced in patients with extra support, the more the better.As a result, the patient suffered undue medical risk, but also increase medical costs.There are a number of hospitals to promote patient with drug-coated cardiac stents better than the simple metal bracket (of course the former price is also more expensive), often installed with the mobilization of patients with drug-coated heart stent, but the latest research findings are This reveals the heart of drug-eluting stents with the drawbacks.(For details, please see enclosure reported)

through this case The public should be to attract attENTion, and then encountered similar problems to fully consider the medical risks, and ultimately make a rational choice.

Enclosure: European medical experts to question the excessive use of drug-coated heart support

Xinhua BARCELONA: Belgium and other European countries, experts at the World Congress of Cardiology, said their research showed that the installation of Drugs coated heart stENT thrombosis risk than ordinary metal stents installed high.

drug-coated heart stENT is made of metal stent technology improved, the purpose of inhibiting vascular stent intimal hyperplasia and reduce the incidence of restenosis, to avoid the recurrence of angina, in which patients suffering from heart bypass Surgery.Since 2000 was introduced into clinical application After that intervENTional cardiology has always been considered a landmark progress in the field.

Belgium Cardiovascular CENTer of Ulster, Professor Wayne 4 ENTitled drug-eluting stents at the short-term benefits and long-term risk of thematic reports that the comprehensive analysis of their use of drug-eluting stent clinical trial results has been found that patients with drug-eluting stents to install the risk of thrombosis was significantly higher than the ordinary stent installed.

expert analysis of the results, said that in a simple metal bracket, the natural growth of endothelial cells will cover the stENT, to prevent the surface of platelet aggregation in the stent, and drug-eluting stents slowly release the drug can prevent intimal hyperplasia though, but may also inhibit the vascular endothelial cells over natural growth, thereby increasing the risk of stent thrombosis.

At the same time, from Switzerland, the Netherlands and other European countries, the experts also put forward similar views.They conducted follow-up survey of patiENTs showed drug-coated heart stent installed after myocardial infarction and death was mainly due to stent thrombosis.

According to statistics, the world nearly 600 million people in the heart of drug-eluting stENTs.United States to use drug-coated stents to treat coronary heart disease has been the proportion of the total number of 90 %, Europe was less than 50 %。

World Congress of Cardiology held every four years, this year's General Assembly held in conjunction with the European Congress of Cardiology, from around the world nearly 3 million experts and scholars attended the meeting.The conference's theme is"old age and cardiovascular disease", in particular, raise concerns about the treatmENT of Cardiovascular Diseases.