Stents Drug Eluting

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for drug eluting stents (DES). These drug coated stents were developed to solve a frequent problem with bare metal stents, which can cause neointimal hyperplasia (scar tissue growth) in some patients. The antiproliferative drugs used on DES prevent the growth of tissue. One downside of DES is the requirement for patients to take long-term antiplatelet therapy to prevent the possible formation of clots on these stents. Newer generation DES use technologies help the vessels heal faster, which may allow reduce the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), or use a single drug, usually eliminating aspirin. This section includes news for both metallic and bioresorbable drug-eluting stents and related clinical trial data.

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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 6, 2007 — The Circulatory System Devices Advisory Panel to the FDA has recommended approval for the XIENCE V ...

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December 6, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. welcomed the recommendation of a FDA advisory panel to approve with ...

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December 4, 2007 - Patients treated with Abbott Laboratories Inc.’s experimental drug-coated heart stent had low rates ...

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December 4, 2007 - In general, drug-eluting stents (DES) achieve better results than bare-metal stents do, U.S ...

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December 4, 2007 – American College of Cardiology CEO Jack Lewin has urged ACC members this week to let "their members ...

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