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. 

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October 13, 2008 — Data from an independent meta-analysis of Abbott Vascular’s SPIRIT II and SPIRIT III randomized ...

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October 13, 2008 - Of those treated with Medtronic’s Endeavor Resolute drug-eluting stent (DES) in the RESOLUTE IDE ...

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October 13, 2008 – At TCT 2008, Boston Scientific Corp. announced results from an analysis of nearly 7,500 patients from ...

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October 13, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. released comprehensive data for the TAXUS ATLAS clinical program, a series of ...

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October 10, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. today said it received FDA approval to market its second-generation ...

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October 9, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. yesterday said it completed enrollment in the PERSEUS trial, designed to ...

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October 8, 2008 - SurModics Inc. today said the PROTEX Coronary Stent System incorporating SurModics’ proprietary Finale ...

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CeloNova BioSciences Inc.'s CATANIA Coronary Stent System features a NanoThin Polyzene-F surface treatment.


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October 7, 2008 – CeloNova BioSciences Inc. will showcase the technology behind the CATANIA Coronary Stent System ...

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October 1, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. said today the U.S. District Court in Delaware has entered judgment against ...

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September 30, 2008 – Czech Republic-based Tryton Medical Inc. said today it launched a novel Side Branch Stent System in ...

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September 25, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced it has received approval from the FDA to market its TAXUS ...

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September 19, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced this week a decision by the U.S. District Court in Delaware ...

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September 19, 2008 – Last month, MIV announced continued positive results for VESTAsync, a polymer-free drug-eluting ...

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September 17, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said this week it started two new trials of the Endeavor Resolute drug-eluting stent ...

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