January 8, 2008 - Compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES), sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) appear to decrease ...
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.
December 27, 2007 - Several new studies on genetics and stem cell research, along with studies that continue to ...
December 26, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced its TAXUS Liberte paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system has ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
December 27, 2007 - XTENT Inc. announced that it has submitted its application to the designated European Notified Body ...
December 17, 2007 - Patients treated with drug-eluting stents must take a combination of aspirin and the clot-reducing ...
December 14, 2007 - According to a guideline update published online today in the journals of the Society for ...
December 13, 2007 - Devax Inc. announced that it has completed patient enrollment in the DIVERGE clinical trial ...
December 7, 2007 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. today has entered into a definitive agreement to sell certain ...
December 6, 2007 — The Circulatory System Devices Advisory Panel to the FDA has recommended approval for the XIENCE V ...
December 6, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. welcomed the recommendation of a FDA advisory panel to approve with ...
December 4, 2007 - In general, drug-eluting stents (DES) achieve better results than bare-metal stents do, U.S ...
December 4, 2007 – American College of Cardiology CEO Jack Lewin has urged ACC members this week to let "their members ...
December 4, 2007 - Patients treated with Abbott Laboratories Inc.’s experimental drug-coated heart stent had low rates ...
November 27, 2007 - St. Jude Medical Inc. announced FDA approval of its Epic Stented Tissue Valve with Linx AC ...
November 21, 2007 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. will sell all of its shares of SagaX Inc. for $4.0 million plus future ...