Drug Eluting Stents for Very Long Lesions: Go Long, But Know the Risks. Issue 6 (May 2017) - Beale, Charles E.
Key Points: Long coronary artery lesions are increasingly treated with new technologies including current generation drug eluting stents (DES) despite a lack of robust data on outcomes. In the current study, patients receiving Xience V DES for very long lesions (>35 mm) compared to lesions 25–35 mm had similar outcomes. Future research should address late outcomes, stent thrombosis rates, as well as investigation of lesions greater than 60 mm.