TCT Highlights: Late Stent Thrombosis Controversy Continues

One of the premier events on the interventional cardiology calendar, the Cardiovas-cular Research Foundation’s (CRF) 18th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, held last month in Washington, DC, provided updates on the latest advances in interventional technologies. New studies on drug-eluting stents (DES), bifurcation stenting, and bioabsorbable stents generated interest at the meeting; however, these sessions were overshadowed by late stent thrombosis (LST) concerns associated with DES. Analyses from DES trials and registries were presented in several sessions and a special hot line session introduced new consensus LST definitions.

Attempting to halt what he called an "epidemic of madness," conference organizer, Martin Leon, MD, of Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY), presented a review of current trial data...