Coronary Artery Stenting

Coronary artery stenting is a minimally invasive procedure that does not require thoracotomy along the catheter in the vascular lumen after puncturing the radial or femoral artery. It began in the late 1970s and developed in the 1980s and 1990s. At present, most municipal hospitals in China have carried out it one after another, and it has been used as a routine treatment for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) of coronary heart disease. Coronary stent surgery technology has been very mature, after a simple balloon expansion, to the implantation of bare metal stents, drug-coated stents, biodegradable stents and so on. At present, many patients with coronary heart disease have been equipped with drug stents. Drug-eluting stents have been used in China for nearly 10 years since 2002. Now more and more people in China have receive

d this treatment, and it is a very safe and effective treatment.