Warning against stents
The use of stents is more likely to cause strokes than the old-fashioned method of simply cleaning out the arteries surgically, a French study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has shown.
Stents were found to be so dangerous that just over a year ago the research team stopped enrolling volunteers in the study, because of risks from the stent technique.
Based on results from 30 medical centres in France, the team found that at the one-month mark, 9.6% of 247 stent recipients had died or suffered a stroke, against 3.9% of 257 who received endarterectomy.
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