October 16, 2014 — Using stents to keep neck arteries open is just as effective as invasive neck surgery for long-term ...
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.
October 8, 2014 — Abbott announced the start of the ABSORB IV clinical trial, which will test whether the Absorb bioreso ...
October 7,2014 — Amaranth Medical announced patient enrollment in multiple centers in Colombia, South America in MEND-II ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
October 3, 2014 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has determined that clinical sites that wish to ...
Earlier this year, the Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adopted the ...
September 26, 2014 — In response to new science showing that complete revascularization of all significantly blocked ...
By Dave Fornell, editor of DAIC Magazine
The key take away messages from the 26th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular ...
September 25, 2014 — Svelte Medical Systems reported that its drug-eluting coronary stent Integrated Delivery System ...
September 24, 2014 — A new study that compares the use of an everolimus-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) ...
September 24, 2014 — Abbott announced positive one-year clinical results from ABSORB II, the world's first prospective ...
DAIC Editor, Dave Fornell, interviews Jim Hermiller, M.D., FACC, director of interventional cardiology, St. Vincent ...
September 18, 2014 — A new study found that fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided provisional side branch (SB) stenting ...
September 16, 2014 — Tryton Medical Inc. announced that the first patient in the United States has been enrolled in the ...
September 9, 2014 — Tryton Medical Inc. announced an initial closing of an aggregate $20 million private equity ...