Two-year outcome of a randomized trial comparing second-generation drug-eluting stents using biodegradable or durable polymer.

Recent network meta-analyses have raised concerns about the safety of biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DES) compared with durable polymer everolimus-eluting stents (DP-EES).1- 3 The NOBORI Biolimus-Eluting vs XIENCE/PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Stent Trial (NEXT) is a 98-center, randomized, open-label, noninferiority trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting stents (BP-BES) vs DP-EES.4

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