New study scrutinizes heart stent procedures - latimes.com: "A new study of more than 500,000 cardiac patients who underwent recent cardiac stent or angioplasty procedures in the United States has found that up to 15 percent were either unnecessary or appeared to be of uncertain medical benefit.
However, nearly all of the procedures performed on cardiac patients experiencing acute symptoms such as a heart attacks appeared to have been medically appropriate, the study found.
About 75,000 cases were labeled as 'inappropriate' or 'uncertain' — almost entirely among the 144,700 patients with nonacute symptoms who underwent the procedures on an elective basis. The cases termed 'inappropriate' made up about 3.5 percent of those studied."
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