The FDA will revisit a device tomorrow that it cleared for U.S. sale three years ago — drug-eluting stents will be the ...
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.Â
Recent downplay of the media’s attention to DES-related thrombosis during both the TCT and AHA conferences this fall may ...
Two novel polymer-free drug-eluting stent coating technologies tested in a comparative animal study has concluded with ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
The stent market will have a distinctly different look after Johnson & Johnson completes its acquisition of Conor ...
The tiny tools of interventional cardiology known as drug-eluting stents (which happen to comprise a gargantuan U.S ...
Cordis Corp. has received approval from the FDA to market its PRECISE Nitinol Stent and ANGIOGUARD Emboli Capture guide ...
The first third-generation drug-eluting stent is now available to physicians and patients in many markets around the ...
A Netherlands study comparing two-year outcomes of a series of 708 consecutive diabetic patients (25 percent insulin ...
ACC together with AHA and other key healthcare organizations, has launched "Door to Balloon (D2B): An Alliance ...
The FDA has cleared Boston Scientific’s NexStent Carotid Stent and Monorail Delivery System for use in patients with ...
Results from the Danish SORT-OUT II study, the largest randomized trial to date comparing Taxus and Cypher drug-eluting ...
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology is inviting organizations to submit their ambulatory ...
A subset analysis of diabetic patients in the SPIRIT II Clinical trial of the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Stent System ...
Early clinical results from Abbott's ongoing ABSORB clinical trial, the world's first study to evaluate the ...
A stent designed to dissolve after it completes its task of propping open narrowed heart arteries is being tested ...