Stents

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for stents, also called vascular scaffolds. Stents are used to help prop open a vessel treated by balloon angioplasty because of the barotrauma caused by the extreme stretching of vessel walls. The stent enables to vessel to heal in an open position with collapsing. Drug eluting stents (DES) are coated in anti-proliferative drugs to precent scar tissue growth which can cause restenosis and occlude the vessel. DES require antiplatelet therapy because the drug carrier polymer on DES can cause thrombus inside the stent, even years after treatment, which is why bare metal stents are still used in some patients. This page includes news on coronary stents, carotid stents, peripheral stents, bioresorbable stents, and renal stents. 

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February 1, 2008 - Stentys' bifurcated stent was successfully implanted recently into a 49-year-old male patient ...

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February 1, 2008 - Abbott has received reimbursement approval in France for its XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Coronary ...

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January 24, 2008 – “Unadjusted mortality…was significantly lower for drug-eluting stents than bare-metal stents ...

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January 22, 2008 - A new stent with a nanothin surface application shows promise in opening and healing blocked ...

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January 22, 2008 - A new stent with a nanothin surface application known as Polyzene-F shows promise in opening ...

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January 14, 2008 - Drug-eluting stents in patients undergoing coronary artery revascularization procedures relieve ...

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January 10, 2008 - Patients who received OrbusNeich’s Genous Bio-engineered R Stent had significantly fewer major ...

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January 8, 2008 - Compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES), sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) appear to decrease ...

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December 26, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced its TAXUS Liberte paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system has ...

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December 27, 2007 - XTENT Inc. announced that it has submitted its application to the designated European Notified Body ...

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December 27, 2007 - Several new studies on genetics and stem cell research, along with studies that continue to ...

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December 17, 2007 - Patients treated with drug-eluting stents must take a combination of aspirin and the clot-reducing ...

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December 14, 2007 - According to a guideline update published online today in the journals of the Society for ...

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December 13, 2007 - Devax Inc. announced that it has completed patient enrollment in the DIVERGE clinical trial ...

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December 7, 2007 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. today has entered into a definitive agreement to sell certain ...

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