Dr. Michael Ring, recently presented a poster session on behalf of his co-authors: Ken Daratha, Robert Short, Denise Dominik, Lynn Shuler and Katherine Tuttle, for the 2008 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Conference in Chicago, Il. His topic was "Two Year Safety and Revascularization Outcomes Following Coronary Artery Intervention with Bare Metal Stents Versus Strategies of Selective or Predominant Drug Eluting Stents in a Community Setting".
The poster presentation represented the work of their current study completed at Providence Medical Research Center and Sacred Heart Medical Center. The study compared the outcome of individuals who had received a bare metal stent with those who had received drug eluting stents. Patients were tracked for a minimum of 2 years following the placement of the stent, using a regional hospital electronic record.