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. 

News | Stents Bifurcation

September 21, 2017 — Cardinal Health and Tryton Medical Inc. announced that the Tryton coronary Side Branch Stent was ...

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Peter Schneider, M.D. presents late breaking clinical trial results at VIVA 17 in Las Vegas. Panelists (l to r) Krishna Rocha-Singh, M.D., Sean Lyden, M.D., John Kaufman, M.D., Donna Buckley, M.D.
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September 14, 2017 — Here are quick summaries for all the key late-breaking vascular and endovascular clinical trials ...

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News | Venous Therapies

September 11, 2017 — Veniti Inc. announced that Boston Scientific will distribute the Vici Venous Stent under a limited ...

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Abbott will end sales of the Absorb bioresorbable stent scaffold, pulling it off the market September 14, 2017.
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | Dave Fornell

September 8, 2017 — Abbott Vascular has announced it will end commercial sales of its Absorb bioresorbable vascular ...

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News | Stents Drug Eluting

September 1, 2017 — Biotronik recently announced data from the BIOFLOW-V randomized trial comparing Orsiro and Xience dr ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

August 18, 2017 — Medtronic plc announced a global randomized clinical trial that will evaluate one-month dual ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

August 3, 2017 — Abbott recently announced the first patient has been enrolled in a clinical study evaluating the short ...

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News | Stents Peripheral

July 26, 2017 — Intact Vascular Inc. recently announced that its Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty II Below the Knee ...

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News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

July 17, 2017 — LimFlow SA announced enrollment of the first patient in the U.S. feasibility study of the LimFlow ...

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News | Stents Peripheral

July 14, 2017 — Intact Vascular Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an Investigational ...

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June 12, 2017 – The Medtronic Resolute Onyx Drug-Eluting Stent (DES) met its primary endpoint of target lesion failure ...

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News | Stents Drug Eluting

May 12, 2017 — PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute enrolled the first patient in Pennsylvania in a trial assessing ...

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Technology | Stents Drug Eluting

May 1, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Medtronic’s Resolute Onyx Drug-eluting Stent (DES) ...

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Videos | Stents Drug Eluting

This video, provided by Medtronic, demonstrates the Resolute Onyx coronary stent. It was cleared by the FDA and launched ...

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News | Stents Peripheral

April 28, 2017 — Biotronik’s Pulsar-18 bare metal stent (BMS) has yielded high primary patency in a real-world setting ...

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