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Datamonitor Healthcare CONTACT DETAILS TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction The history of angioplasty Current use of stents in interventional therapy Definition of stenting In-stent restenosis Increased intervention costs Epidemiology overview Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) Recent advances in stent therapy Brachytherapy Sonotherapy Coated stents Radioactive stents Pipeline for drug-eluting stents Sirolimus-eluting stent RAVEL: zero restenosis Cypher: Is it really too good to be true? Will drug-eluting stents prove too costly? Potential strategic alliances for Cordis Market implications of drug-eluting stents Paclitaxel-eluting stents SCORE trial terminated Increasing presence in the medical device market Initial results from the paclitaxel-eluting stent trial Strategic alliances to maximize potential revenue Actinomycin D-eluting stent Comparative analysis Competition between drug-eluting stents Market forecasts for drug-eluting stents Potential impact on antithrombotic drug therapy? Appendix Bibliography