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.
The Tryton Side Branch Stent is deployed in the side branch artery using a standard single wire balloon-expandable stent delivery system. A conventional drug eluting stent is then placed in the main vessel.
Technology | Stents Bifurcation | March 06, 2017
March 6, 2017 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted pre-market approval (PMA) for the Tryton Side...
News | Stents Drug Eluting | March 03, 2017
March 3, 2017 — Biosensors International Group Ltd. announced in February enrollment of the first patient in LEADERS...
News | Stents Peripheral | March 02, 2017
March 2, 2017 — Intact Vascular Inc. announced in February that its Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty II Below the...
Technology | Stents | March 02, 2017
March 2, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared CeloNova BioSciences Inc. first-in-class Cobra PzF...
Technology | Stents Bare Metal | February 15, 2017
February 15, 2017 — The PRO-Kinetic Energy Cobalt Chromium (CoCr) Coronary Stent System from Biotronik has gained U.S....
Blog | Stents | February 13, 2017
Stents were the key focus of interventional cardiology for more than 20 years, but the focus has changed in recent...
Videos | Medical 3-D Printing | February 09, 2017
When a pediatric patient at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles needed a custom-build stent to repair his pulmonary artery...
Blog | January 30, 2017
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The Synergy stent is the first FDA cleared drug-eluting stent to use a bioresorbable polymer drug carrier. When the polymer dissolves after about four months, the devices become a bare metal stent. The technology is supposed to reduce the rate of late stent thrombosis due to vessel inflammation caused by durable polymers.
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | January 17, 2017 | Dave Fornell
One of the big advancements in drug-eluting stent (DES) technology has been the development of bioresorbable polymers...
An OCT image showing good stent strut apposition against the vessel wall.
News | Stents | January 13, 2017
January 13, 2017 — Results from TRANSFORM-OCT, a prospective, randomized trial using optical coherence tomography (OCT...
Gregg W. Stone, M.D., presenting the EXCEL data at TCT 2016 during a standing room only late-breaking trial session.
Feature | Stents | January 12, 2017 | Dave Fornell
The biggest news from the 2016 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting this past fall was the results...
News | Stents Drug Eluting | January 10, 2017
January 10, 2017 — Medinol announced in December positive twelve-month clinical results from the BIONICS study. The...
News | Stroke | January 02, 2017
January 2, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hopes to build clinical evidence through new registries...
The FDA clearance of the first fully bioresorbable stent, the Abbott Absorb BVS, was by far the top story of 2016. Readers clearly had a massive interest in this technology based on their page views of this article, related bioresorbable stent content and a video interviews with key ABSORB study investigators.
Feature | December 21, 2016 | Dave Fornell
The Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) website had a record year in 2016, breaking 1 million page views...
News | Stents Peripheral | December 13, 2016
December 13, 2016 — Biotronik announced the presentation of data confirming the efficacy of the Pulsar-18 bare metal...
