Drug-coated stents now seen as okay

In the recent past, drug-coated mesh stents meant to "prop up" arteries and heart tissues to prevent future clots were ties to all kinds of issues. It seems any newer medical device always has some kind of side effect, but the solution was to coat these metal devices in a drug that alleviated problems -- or tried to, anyway.

Newer research states that these stents may now not increase the possibility of clots in the future, Previous medical evidence was that these stents actually caused clots later on due to the drugs coating them.

But not according to the most recent medical research out of Europe. Earlier studies were giving conclusions on patients and technology that were too new to be accurate, but with an extra year of information and more patients to study, the data now says that these drug-coated stents are not contributing to clots like previously thought.