Clinical and angiographic results of percutaneous coronary revascularization using a trilayer stainless steel-tantalum-stainless steel phosphorylcholine-coated stent: the TriMaxx trial.

Background: The TriMaxx coronary stent system includes a novel trilayer metal stent having two outer layers of 316L stainless steel and with an inner 0.0007 inches layer of tantalum. This enables creation of a maximally flexible and thin device (0.