April 15, 2012

Mayo Clinic Study Suggests Coronary Stents Not Harmful to Patients With History of Metal Allergy

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Cardiologists have long grappled with how to best manage patients with coronary artery disease who report skin hypersensitivity to nickel or other metal components found in stents -- small tubes placed in narrowed or weakened arteries to help improve blood flow to the heart…"Most interventional cardiologists will, at some stage, have to decide whether to place a coronary stent in a patient with a history of skin allergy to one of the metal components, most commonly nickel. Our study found no evidence of an increased risk of heart attack, death or restenosis, which is a recurrent narrowing within a stent, in patients who reported themselves to be allergic to metal prior to implantation," says Rajiv Gulati, M.D., Ph.D., an interventional cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

 

 

Science Codex   4/15/12

Tags: Allergy, Cardiology, coronary artery disease, Dr. Rajiv Gulati, Mayo Clinic Rochester, metal allergy, Research

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