when compared with bare-metal stents (BMSs), in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Use of these stents rapidly became widespread in clinical practice. However, reports of ...

Background and Aims: Technical limitations of conventional endoscopes and delivery systems frequently hamper palliative endoscopic placement of self-expandable metal stents for malignant small ...

causing chest pain and shortness of breath. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, also known as coronary angioplasty) is a minimally invasive procedure in which tiny metal tubes called stents are ...