Impact of Drug-Eluting Stents and Diabetes Mellitus in Patients With Coronary Bifurcation Lesions: A Survey From the Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology.

The article discusses a study on the relative benefits of using different stent types for diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with coronary bifurcation lesions submitted to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Patients who underwent PCI for coronary bifurcations of a major epicardial vessel stenosis between March 2002 and December 2005 were enrolled. It suggests that the use of DES in DM patients was associated with improved outcomes in terms of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), cardiac death and repeat revascularization at long-term follow up.