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, bioresorbableย stents, and renal stents.ย 

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December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...

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December 29, 2010 โ€“ An international trial for a self-apposing stent has begun, with 50 of the total 500 patients ...

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December 17, 2010 โ€“ Meta analysis data delivered at the Innovations in Interventional Cardiology 2010 meeting ...

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December 7, 2010 โ€“ A new bioresorbable stent scaffold can be overinflated by more than 25 percent without ...

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December 6, 2010 - A European court has struck a blow to Boston Scientific's alleged patent infringement case ...

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December 6, 2010 โ€“ Cordis Corp. has entered into a distribution agreement with Ostial Solutions for the worldwide ...

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December 6, 2010 โ€“ A new stent shows favorable outcomes compared to bare metal stents (BMS) for treating coronary ...

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December 3, 2010 โ€“ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given conditional approval for an ...

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November 24, 2010 โ€“ Results for a trial comparing a drug-eluting stent to balloon angioplasty and bare metal ...

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November 23, 2010 - The preliminary findings of the CREST study have so far failed to squelch the debate between ...

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November 23, 2010 โ€“ Study results found significant differences in men and women older than 80 who underwent ...

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November 22, 2010 โ€“ At the VEITHsymposium, physicians debated whether stents are usually required in the ...

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November 18, 2010 โ€“ After the initial findings from the CREST trial, debate continues to swirl as proponents of ...

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November 17, 2010 โ€“ A drug-eluting balloon (DEB) and a coronary stent have received CE mark approval in Europe ...

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November 5, 2010 โ€“ The final patient has been enrolled in a trial studying a balloon-expandable covered stent for ...

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