Alan Yeung, MD

Publication Details

• The conversion in application of percutaneous coronary intervention following the introduction of drug eluting stents.

  Ikeno F, Raissi Shabari F, Sadoughi A, Lyons JK, Pourdehmobed K, Hashemi V, Emami S, Kaneda H, Kanada H, Yeung AC, Rezaee M. Int J Cardiol. 2006; 113 (2): 279-80

  In order to determine the changes in the pattern of techniques applied during elective coronary intervention, data from 688 patients prior to Sirolimus. Drug-Eluting Stents (DES) approval was compared to 438 patients who underwent coronary intervention after DES approval. There was increased intervention to higher risk lesions, including smaller vessels and re-stenotic lesions after DES approval. Total number of stents per patient significantly decreased, despite longer stent length per patient or per lesion after DES approval. No significant difference was found in multivessel interventions.

  PubMedID: 16318883