Price threatens future of UK stenting
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Some UK institutions have been told to stop stenting because of the cost, according to the man who inserted the first coronary stent in a human, Dr Ulrich Sigwart, of the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He made the comment at The Stent Summit, a conference held in London at the end of May to celebrate the first ten years of stenting and plot the future of the block-buster devices.