Current performance standards are high and promising new technologies are finding it difficult to compete
The narrative review in this issue of the MJA by Chen and Jepson1 outlines the enormous advances made in stent technology since Sigwart and colleagues published the first report on the clinical use of coronary stents in 1987.2 Driven by technological progress and rigorous scientific study, coronary stents have advanced rapidly to the stage where a patient’s coronary stenosis can be safely and reliably opened.
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