May 28, 2013 — Abbott announced CE mark in Europe for the Xience Xpedition 48 Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System ...
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
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May 24, 2013 — InspireMD Inc. announced new six-month results from the MASTER (MGuard for Acute ST Elevation Reperfusion ...
![University of Maryland Medical Center Genetic-Testing Program Cardiac Stent](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/1010760_30792274.jpg?itok=mpMxTJnX)
May 17, 2013 — Patients with coronary artery disease who undergo treatment at the University of Maryland Medical Center ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
![Elixer bioresorbable stent](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Elixer%20bioresorbable%20stent.jpg?itok=-5jqj0M0)
May 16, 2013 — Elixir Medical Corp. announced it received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark approval for its DESolve ...
![bioresorbable stent, zinc stent](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/ZincStent%20prototype.jpg?itok=F1LM4ZVy)
May 15, 2013 — In 2012, more than 3 million people had stents inserted in their coronary arteries. After about six ...
May 13, 2013 — For patients who received stents to restore blood flow through the main arteries supplying blood to the ...
April 30, 2013 — Cook Medical has initiated a global voluntary recall of its Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Peripheral Stent ba ...
April 25, 2013 — Stenting reopens completely blocked bowel arteries, preventing damage and even death from a condition ...
April 16, 2013 — Kidney failure patients on dialysis derive long-term benefit from the minimally invasive placement of a ...
April 15, 2013 — Cook Medical has launched the VIVO clinical research study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of ...
April 8, 2013 — The FREEDOM trial, the first long-term, comparative study of its kind exclusively for patients with ...
April 2, 2013 — Reva Medical Inc. announced that it has initiated patient enrollment into a clinical trial with its ...
March 28, 2013 — Cardiologists at ACC.13 learned that patients with coronary artery disease who received a Resolute drug ...
March 26, 2013 — NeuroVive announces that the 600th patient has been recruited to a pivotal Phase III European, multi ...
March 26, 2013 — A multicenter analysis, led by Weill Cornell Medical College and published in the Journal of Clinical ...