The relationship between coronary stent strut thickness and the incidences of clinical outcomes after drug‐eluting stent implantation: A systematic review and meta‐regression analysis

Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have been developed with thinner stent struts, and more biocompatible polymers and anti-proliferative drugs to improve the clinical performance. However, it remains unclear whether thinner struts are associated with favorable short- and long-term clinical outcomes such as target lesion revascularization (TLR), periprocedural myocardial infarction (PMI), and stent thrombosis (ST).We searched MEDLINE, Embase and other...