May 28, 2020 — Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian recently became the first hospital on the West Coast to perform an ...
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.Â
May 17, 2020 – A new study sought to reveal whether drug-eluting stents (DES) coated with bioabsorbable polymer (BP) ...
February 24, 2020 — Biotronik announced three-year data from the BIOFLOW-V Trial, which was presented yesterday at the ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
February 19, 2020 — Connectiv, a division of The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), has announced the ...
![The Boston Scientific Eluvia self-expanding, drug-eluting, peripheral stent.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Eluvia_PAD_stent_Staff_DF_TCT18%20copy.jpg?itok=npL49Jtt)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are among the leading causes of death across the globe. For patients suffering from high ...
January 2, 2020 — In early December 2019, leaders of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) withdre ...
![The American Heart Association, AHA, 2019 meeting late breaking trials and key studies on cardiovascular science.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/AHA_floor_logo.jpg?itok=-H6ArW3Q)
November 19, 2019 — Here is a list of the key late-breaking clinical study presentations and links to the results at the ...
November 11, 2019 — Although common femoral artery (CFA) endarterectomy is still considered the gold standard treatment ...
November 8, 2019 — The Absorb bioresorbable stent (BVS) demonstrated good patency and clinical outcomes in patients with ...
November 7, 2019 — Although the Abbott Absorb fully bioresorbable drug-eluting stent (DES) was taken off the market due ...
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November 6, 2019 – The final, long-term, patient-level data for the Cook Medical Zilver PTX drug-eluting stent (DES) ...
November 6, 2019 – Boston Scientific announced positive data for two of its devices within the peripheral drug-eluting ...
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![EchoPixel showed technology at TCT 2019 that creates live holograms in the cath lab from 3-D TEE imaging. It projects the holograms on a special display screen that does not require the user to wear 3-D glasses. The interventional cardiologist can use hand movements and a foot switch to move the image around without breaking the sterile field. It offers a new way to visualize catheters, device positioning and deployment for structural heart procedures. #TCT2019 #TCT #TCT19](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Echopixel_3D_imaging_Neil_Kleiman_TCT19_staff_DF.jpg?itok=ut3mtiub)
The latest in interventional cardiology clinical data and new device technologies were highlighted at the annual Transca ...
October 31, 2019 – In a large series of iliac vein stent cases, a blinded comparison found intravascular ultrasound ...