Study: balloons better for heart than stents
14th Nov 2006, 16:19 GMT
Clogged stents -- tiny mesh tubes that prop open heart arteries - have been coming under increasing criticism, and now a team of German doctors are recommending balloons coated with the drug paclitaxel.
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