September 14, 2010 – The latest clinical trial data for the Promus Element and Taxus Element coronary stents will ...
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.
September 8. 2010 – Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided bifurcation stenting significantly reduced the four ...
September 08, 2010
September 7, 2010 – New analyses of subgroups from the SORT OUT III study provide detail on longer-term follow-up ...
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September 1, 2010 - The results of follow-up tests undertaken ten years after the first patient was treated with ...
September 01, 2010
September 1, 2010 - A new zotarolimus-eluting coronary stent using a biocompatible polymer gained CE mark and is ...
September 01, 2010
Feature | David Smith, M.D.
In the world of endovascular devices, the rule is no longer one size fits all. The recent increase in the variety ...
August 26, 2010
August 24, 2010 – Optical coherence tomography (OCT) evaluation of a patient with anterior ST-elevation ...
August 24, 2010
August 19, 2010 – The Cardiovascular Research Foundation recently announced the late-breaking trials and first ...
August 20, 2010
August 9, 2010 – Enrollment was recently completed in a clinical trial of Medtronic’s Complete SE (self-expanding) ...
August 09, 2010
August 3, 2010 — Patient enrollment began in the EVOLVE clinical trial, which is designed to assess the safety and ...
August 03, 2010
July 30, 2010 – A drug-eluting coronary bifurcation stent received CE mark this week for clinical use in Europe ...
July 30, 2010
July 26, 2010 – Today a fourth-generation intracranial aneurysm stent
system was released in both the U.S. and ...
July 26, 2010
Feature | Dave Fornell
There is no consensus about whether atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis should be stented or treated medically. There ...
July 20, 2010
June 24, 2010 – Tryton Medical Inc. announced that the company’s Tryton Side Branch Stent System has been used in ...
June 24, 2010
June 11, 2010 – A new drug-eluting stent (DES) was launched this week in the European Union and other CE mark ...
June 11, 2010