October 23, 2012 — The use of stents for arterial blockages in the leg has been associated with high rates of late ...
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 23, 2012
October 19, 2012 — The 24th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, sponsored by the Cardiovascular ...
October 19, 2012
October 19, 2012 — Elixir Medical Corporation, a developer of products that combine state-of-the-art medical devices ...
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October 15, 2012 — Three-year data from the Zilver PTX randomized controlled trial of paclitaxel-eluting stents for ...
October 15, 2012
October 8, 2012 — Following Health Canada approval, Cook Medical made the Zilver Vena Venous Self-Expanding Stent availa ...
October 08, 2012
October 3, 2012 — Stentys, a medical technology company commercializing the world's first and only self-apposing stent t ...
October 03, 2012
September 28, 2012 — The world’s first drug-eluting bioabsorbable vascular scaffold has been launched and will ...
September 28, 2012
September 26, 2012 — Abbott Vascular this week began its international launch of the Absorb coronary stent, the world's ...
September 26, 2012September 24, 2012 — Bio DG announced that its patent for a novel metal system, to use as biodegradable material in ...
September 24, 2012
September 18, 2012 — Inpatient hospital treatment accounts for the largest proportion of healthcare spending in the ...
September 18, 2012
September 17, 2012 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report ...
September 17, 2012
Austin Medical Design's Cath Cube is a single-use product for management of guidewires and catheters (balloons and ...
September 13, 2012
September 6, 2012 — Drug-eluting stents (DES) are used less often in women treated with percutaneous coronary ...
September 06, 2012
August 20, 2012 — Abbott today announced that the Xience Xpedition everolimus-eluting coronary stent system received CE ...
August 20, 2012August 14, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hosting a public workshop that examines use of ...
August 14, 2012