Stents Drug Eluting

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for drug eluting stents (DES). These drug coated stents were developed to solve a frequent problem with bare metal stents, which can cause neointimal hyperplasia (scar tissue growth) in some patients. The antiproliferative drugs used on DES prevent the growth of tissue. One downside of DES is the requirement for patients to take long-term antiplatelet therapy to prevent the possible formation of clots on these stents. Newer generation DES use technologies help the vessels heal faster, which may allow reduce the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), or use a single drug, usually eliminating aspirin. This section includes news for both metallic and bioresorbable drug-eluting stents and related clinical trial data.

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December 18, 2008 - Abbott this week said it started the SPIRIT Small Vessel, a clinical trial evaluating a 2.25mm size ...

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November 14, 2008 - A stent that entices artery-lining cells to coat it works as well, or better than, drug-eluting ...

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November 13, 2008 - Based on its recent analysis of the drug eluting-stents (DES) market, Frost & Sullivan today ...

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November 13, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. today started its U.S. market launch of the Endeavor Sprint drug-eluting stent ...

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November 13, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said yesterday its enrollment in the 2,300-patient RESOLUTE All-Comers (R-AC) ...

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November 11, 2008 - Global Therapeutics today initiated of the world's first clinical trial of a drug-eluting stent that ...

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Boston Scientific's TAXUS Express2 Atom paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent system is a drug-eluting stent (DES) ...

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October 31, 2008 - Surface modification and drug delivery technologies company SurModics Inc. said today it is providing ...

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October 30, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said today it plans to launch its portfolio of angioplasty products in the U.S. on the ...

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October 30, 2008 - Abbott this week received a 2008 Chicago Innovation Award for its XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting ...

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October 21, 2008 - MIV Therapeutics Inc., a developer of coatings and drug-delivery systems for cardiovascular stents ...

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The stent wars continued at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2008 20th annual symposium last week with ...

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October 20, 2008 – At TCT last week Abbott announced two-year data from 30 patients in its ABSORB clinical trial ...

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October 17, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced results at TCT from an analysis of the HORIZONS-AMI trial showing a ...

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October 17, 2008 - Elixir Medical Corp. today announced results from three multicenter first-in-man studies of Novolimus ...

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