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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OCTOBER 23, 2007 – Abbott’s fully bioabsorbable drug eluting stent platform for the treatment of coronary artery disease ...

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October 22, 2007 - Implantation of the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent by Cordis Corp. used to treat completely ...

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October 22, 2007 – Stent thrombosis rates through one year were low for both the TAXUS Express2 Paclitaxel-Eluting ...

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October 18, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. today announced it will restructure or sell several business units to ...

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October 18, 2007 - Abbott announced that trial results for ABSORB, the world’s first clinical trial evaluating the ...

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October 18, 2007 – XTENT Inc. announced that two-year data from the CUSTOM I trial and 1-year data from the CUSTOM II ...

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October 18, 2007 - Cordis Corp. will present clinical data backing the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting coronary stent at the ...

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Ever since the BASKET-LATE study came out suggesting an increase in the rate of death and myocardial infarction in ...

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October 17, 2007 — Patients with heart disease who undergo coronary angioplasty have an equivalent risk of death ...

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October 17, 2007 - Compared to bare metal stents, in patients with acute myocardial infarction, sirolimus-eluting stent ...

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October 17, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. will be presenting safety and efficacy data on its TAXUS Express2 and TAXUS ...

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October 17, 2007 — The first trial to test whether medicated, drug-eluting (dispensing), stents can benefit patients who ...

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The FLAIR Endovascular Stent Graft treats stenoses (narrowing) at the venous anastomosis of synthetic ...

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October 16, 2007 - MIV Therapeutics Inc., a developer of coatings and drug delivery systems for cardiovascular stents ...

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October 10, 2007 - Medtronic Inc. announced that an FDA advisory committee has recommended the Endeavor drug-eluting ...

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