Nursing Intervention at Home Care to Prevent Recurrence of Cardiac Stent

Abstract

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with implantation of drug-eluting or bare-metal stents has become one of the most frequently performed therapeutic procedures in medicine. Each year, millions of patients are treated worldwide. The use of drug-eluting stents has been shown to be more effective in the prevention of restenosis than the use of bare-metal stentsand the use of newer-generation drug-eluting stents, as compared with first-generation devices, may also reduce the rate of stent thrombosis. It has been suggested that the benefits associated with the use of newer-generation drug-eluting stents may translate into reduced rates of death and myocardial infarction. Stefanini & Holmes (2013).