Sigwart and colleagues: intravascular stents after angioplasty

What changed

Reported early human self-expanding stent implantation in coronary and peripheral arteries.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact five-author 1987 NEJM preliminary experience. It includes small patient cohorts, complications and limited follow-up; later trials, balloon-expandable and drug-eluting stents remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact five-author 1987 NEJM preliminary experience. It includes small patient cohorts, complications and limited follow-up; later trials, balloon-expandable and drug-eluting stents remain separate.

Contributors

• Ulrich Sigwart · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Jacques Puel · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Velimir Mirkovitch · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Francis Joffre · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Lukas Kappenberger · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• NEJM record for intravascular stents after angioplasty
• PubMed record for Sigwart and colleagues’ stent paper

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