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. 

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June 4, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory approval of 32 mm ...

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May 30, 2012 — Tryton Medical Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions ...

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May 30, 2012 - According to study results to be featured in the late-breaking clinical trials session at the American ...

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May 23, 2012 - Boston Scientific Corp. announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and market launch of the ...

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May 23, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. announces that the Synergy everolimus-eluting bioabsorbable polymer-coated ...

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May 23, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced two-year results from the PLATINUM Small Vessel study, demonstrating ...

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May 22, 2012 — New long-term data from the DIVERGE study presented at EuroPCR 2012 showed that the use of the Axxess dru ...

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May 15, 2012 –– As EuroPCR 2012 gets underway, Medtronic Inc.announced that the Resolute Integrity Coronary Stent System ...

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May 17, 2012 — Boston Scientific Corp. announces CE mark and European market launch of the Innova Self-Expanding Bare ...

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May 15, 2012 — A simple clinical assessment performed in the doctor’s office can identify patients who are at high risk ...

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May 14, 2012 -- Two types of stent systems are both effective in treating patients who have severe forms of peripheral ...

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May 10, 2012 — New research confirms thrombus aspiration (TA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in ...

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May 4, 2012 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the premarket approval application (PMA) for the ...

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April 23, 2012 - Abbott and St. Jude Medical announced ChoiceAlliance, a multi-year joint initiative that provides ...

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