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A U.S. advisory panel heard evidence on Thursday about risks of drug-coated stents, the tiny mesh tubes used to prop open arteries in millions of heart patients.

A controversy erupted this year when research showed the devices may cause dangerous blood clots in some patients months after being implanted. Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. sell drug-coated stents in the United States.

A dispute over the safety of heart stents from Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. is causing a public rift among cardiologists.

Doctors at a scientific conference in Washington this week are at odds over new data showing the companies' best-selling stents may cause more life-threatening blood clots than initially anticipated. The stents, which generated more than $5 billion in 2005 sales, are metal tubes that keep coronary arteries open to prevent heart attacks.

With drug-eluting coronary stents implanted in more than 2 million people worldwide, some doctors and researchers are now concerned about a long-term problem they see in a small number of patients who have received stents: blood clots inside the stents themselves.

Although the rate of serious clotting is extremely low, with manufacturers reporting just a handful of clots in more than 1,500 patients they are following, the cases concern doctors because clots nearly always cause heart attacks or death.

Doctors report an increase in potentially deadly blood clots in patients' arteries that have been implanted with drug-coated stents.

Signs of increased clotting could reduce cardiologists' and patients' enthusiasm for drug-coated stents, which are by far the most popular kind. Since hitting the market in 2003, drug-coated stents have been implanted in three million people worldwide.

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