Stents Bare Metal

Bare metal stents are mesh-like tubes of thin wire without a coating or covering. Ideally, bare metal stents will be covered by a new layer of endothelial cells, sealing it into the vessel wall, within a few weeks after implant. However, a percentage of patients have their body negatively respond to the implanted foreign body, resulting in the formation of neointimal hyperplasia, a growth of scar tissue over the stent. This can cause restenosis of the vessel segment, which led to the development of drug-eluting stents (DES) now used in most patients. However, DES require the patient to take long-term antiplatelet medication, so patients who are likely to be noncompliant are often given bare metal stents.  

The Medtronic Resolute Integrity drug-eluting stent is among the top three stents on the U.S. market. Outcomes for these stents are very similar, so the stents have largely become a commodity product purchased on price rather than clinical data. Stent advances and new stent technologies.
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There was a lot of hype and high hopes pinned on bioresorbable stent technologies as the way of the future two years ago ...

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December 14, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced clearance for NuMed’s Cheatham Platinum (CP) S ...

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November 10, 2017 — Cordis, a Cardinal Health company, recently unveiled a comprehensive interventional cardiology portf ...

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September 22, 2017 — Physicians demonstrated that reducing metal burden in superficial femoral artery (SFA) therapy ...

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February 15, 2017 — The PRO-Kinetic Energy Cobalt Chromium (CoCr) Coronary Stent System from Biotronik has gained U.S ...

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December 31, 2015 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Biotronik's Astron Peripheral Self-Expanding ...

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December 9, 2015 — Medinol U.S. recently opened their commercial business in Parsippany, New Jersey, followed by the ...

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June 11, 2015 - Patients who received a bare metal coronary stent did not display significant differences in rates of ...

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July 22, 2014 — Boston Scientific announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Rebel ...

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March 13, 2014 — Boston Scientific Corp. received CE marking for the Rebel Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System, the ...

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November 1, 2013 — A clinical trial designed to measure the effectiveness of using a dedicated side branch-covering bare ...
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November 1, 2013 — A clinical trial comparing the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) and drug-eluting balloons (DEB) in ...
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The interventional cardiology market includes, but is not limited to, drug-eluting stents, bare-metal stents ...

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December 27, 2012 — Biotronik announced that the first implant has taken place in the BIOHELIX-I trial in the United ...

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December 7, 2012 — Tryton Medical Inc. announced the completion of enrollment in the TRYTON Pivotal U.S. Food and Drug ...

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