thesis
Coronary stenting : a quantitative angiographic and clinical evaluation
- Publication date
- 14 June 1995
- Publisher
- Following implantation of the first coronary stent in 1986 by Jacques Puel in Toulouse,
coronary stenting has, from a sequence of pioneering registries in the late 1980's to an era
of randomized trials in the 1990's, come to adopt a prominent role in today's practice of
interventional cardiology. In its conventional naked metallic form, coronary stenting
represents a mechanical approach to a biological problem. When appropriately deployed,
the coronary stent can tack back dissections and restore normal flow in vessels with
threatened or acute closure and provides a means to optimize elective angioplasty of
primary and recurrent stenoses in both native coronary arteries and aorto-
