n engl j med 368;16 nejm.org april 18, 2013 1557 by Barbui et al., a consensus statement of which they are coauthors, contains no data addressing their assertion because, as Barbui has written elsewhere,1 there are no data implicating the baseline leukocyte count as a thrombotic risk factor in patients with polycythemia vera. Fourth, by choosing the reference by Campbell et al., they are confla...

Stent thrombosis (ST) after percutaneous coronary intervention has been the focus of intense interest because of its attendant morbidity and mortality. There is controversy about several facets of the problem. These include the frequency of ST with drug-eluting stents (DES) versus bare-metal stents (BMS), the timing of the event, clinical consequences, risk factors, adjunctive therapy, and new ...

BACKGROUND Drug-eluting stents have been seen as an attractive alternative to bare-metal stents for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) because of the decreased need for revascularization. However, comparative clinical trials have shown no difference in patient outcomes, and drug-eluting stents are considerably more expensive than their bare-metal counterparts. We conducted a systematic ...