I’m George W. Vetrovec, MD, FACC, lead editor for the Invasive CV Angiography and Interventional clinical topic collection on ACC.org. This question regards the current use, if any, of bare-metal stents today given the improving stent technology and reported outcomes of second generation and new platform DES and BVS stent technology.

Please contribute your thoughts to this controversial topic given competing guidelines and actual practice in this area. I look forward to your responses. Thank you for your thoughts.

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Clinical Topics: Invasive Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention, Interventions and Imaging, Angiography, Nuclear Imaging

Keywords: Angiography

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