Université de Fribourg

Cost-effectiveness of drug-eluting stents in elderly patients with coronary artery disease: the SENIOR trial

Bulsei, Julie ; Butel, Thibault ; Varenne, Olivier ; Cook, Stéphane ; Cuisset, Thomas ; Carrié, Didier ; Hovasse, Thomas ; Morice, Marie-Claude ; Sinnaeve, Peter R. ; Durand-Zaleski, Isabelle

In: Value in Health, 2019, vol. 22, no. 12, p. 1355–1361

Elderly patients receive bare metal stents instead of drug-eluting stents (DES) to shorten the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). The SENIOR trial compared outcomes between these 2 types of stents combined with a short duration of DAPT. A significant decrease in the number of patients with at least 1 major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event (MACCE) was noted in the DES...