Bare metal stents (BMS) were introduced in 1994 as an improvement over balloon angioplasty alone, which had a high ...
Stents Carotid
Carotid artery stenting is used to reopen carotid arteries narrowed by atherosclerotic lesions. The stent is designed to proper open a vessel segment treated with balloon angioplasty. Carotid plaques cause reduced blood flow to the brain and stroke. The alternative procedure is surgical endarterectomy, where the vessel is opened and the plaque removed.
Feature | By Stephanie Labelle, Senior Analyst, Millennium Research Group
When stenting emerged as a minimally- invasive treatment for clogged arteries associated with peripheral artery ...
July 20, 2009
March 10, 2009 - Carotid artery stenting (CAS) has demonstrated outcomes consistent with the American Heart ...
March 10, 2009
February 10, 2009 - W. L. Gore and Associates today said at the International Congress on Endovascular ...
February 10, 2009January 5, 2009 - Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) yields better short-term results than carotid artery stenting (CAS) in ...
January 04, 2009December 18, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. today announced enrollment of the first patient in the CABANA post-market ...
December 17, 2008October 27, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. last week said the FDA approved its Carotid WALLSTENT Monorail ...
October 26, 2008Feature | Venkat Rajan, medical research analyst, Frost & Sullivan
This comparison chart features three categories of stents: coronary, carotid and peripheral. We gratefully acknowledge ...
September 03, 2008August 14, 2008 - Boston Scientific and FDA today informed healthcare professionals and patients of the Class I Recall ...
August 13, 2008April 10, 2008 - According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine this week, three-year data from ...
April 09, 2008Feature | Cristen C. Bolan
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has partnered with the American College of ...
March 16, 2008October 30, 2007 - Cordis Corp. will launch in the U.S. and European its next generation carotid stent system, the ...
October 29, 2007October 29, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced positive three-year results from its CABERNET and BEACH ...
October 28, 2007
Cordis Corp. introduced next generation carotid stent system, the PRECISE PRO RX Nitinol Self-Expanding Stent ...
October 24, 2007October 25, 2007 - Cordis Corp. announced at TCT 2007 the U.S. and European launch of Cordis’s next generation ...
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