{"id":1401,"date":"2010-01-11T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/compare-everolimus-vs-paclitaxel-stents\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:18","slug":"compare-everolimus-vs-paclitaxel-stents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/11\/compare-everolimus-vs-paclitaxel-stents\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPARE: Everolimus vs paclitaxel stents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(09)62127-9\/fulltext\">the recently published COMPARE trial<\/a>, the use of second-generation everolimus-eluting stents, when compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents, was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of major adverse cardiac events at 1 year. \u00a0This difference was driven by a reduction in the rate of MI and repeat target vessel revascularization. \u00a0Interestingly, this reduction was already apparent at 1 month and attributable to a significantly lower rate of early stent thrombosis.<\/p>\n<p>Based on these results, the authors suggest that paclitaxel-eluting stents should no longer be used in everyday clinical practice.\u00a0 Do you plan to stop using paclitaxel-eluting stents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recently published COMPARE trial, the use of second-generation everolimus-eluting stents, when compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents, was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of major adverse cardiac events at 1 year. \u00a0This difference was driven by a reduction in the rate of MI and repeat target vessel revascularization. \u00a0Interestingly, this reduction was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}