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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FDA has granted approval to the Cordis Endovascular division of Cordis Corp. to market its PRECISE RX Nitinol Self ...

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The first interwoven nitinol self-expanding stent available in the U.S. for palliative treatment of malignant strictures ...

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Author’s Note: For this inaugural article I begin with an insider’s look on the “health” of drug-eluting stents ...

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Feb. 7, 2007 — Abbott has announced its plan to launch the world's first drug-eluting stent clinical trial solely in ...

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Feb. 6, 2007 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new proposed policy in which coverage ...

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Feb. 1, 2007 — Cook Medical released nine-month data this week for its PTX Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent (DES) trial, which ...

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Feb. 1, 2007 — Stockholders of Conor Medsystems, Inc. have approved the merger agreement between Conor and Johnson & ...

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Jan. 29, 2007 — Abbott Vascular surpassed Cordis for the first time in December 2006 as the market leader in peripheral ...

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Jan. 25, 2007 — ev3 Inc. has announced FDA approval of the PROTÉGÉ RX Carotid Stent, which, when used in conjunction ...

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Jan. 23, 2007 — Carotid stent maker ev3 will sponsor an evening symposium at the International Symposium of Endovascular ...

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Jan. 19, 2007 — The second generation Coating Durability Tester (CDT2) by Dynatek will be exhibited at the Medical ...

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Jan. 15, 2007 — Boston Scientific Corp. has announced the international launch and first implantation of the PROMUS ...

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Jan. 11, 2007 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) today released a clinical alert ...

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Jan. 5, 2007 — A French court has ruled that Abbott Laboratories’ Xience V drug-eluting coronary stents infringe patents ...

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Implant Sciences Corp. a wholly-owned German subsidiary of CorNova, Inc., has received CE Mark marketing approval for ...

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