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, bioresorbableΒ stents, and renal stents.Β 

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August 3, 2010 β€” Patient enrollment began in the EVOLVE clinical trial, which is designed to assess the safety and ...

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July 30, 2010 – A drug-eluting coronary bifurcation stent received CE mark this week for clinical use in Europe ...

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July 26, 2010 – Today a fourth-generation intracranial aneurysm stent

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There is no consensus about whether atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis should be stented or treated medically. There ...

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June 24, 2010 – Tryton Medical Inc. announced that the company’s Tryton Side Branch Stent System has been used in ...

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June 14, 2010 – A self-expanding, polymer-free, drug-eluting peripheral stent has been submitted for premarket ...

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June 11, 2010 – A new drug-eluting stent (DES) was launched this week in the European Union and other CE mark ...

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June 3, 2010 – Six-month data from the first 45 patients enrolled in the second stage of a trial for a ...

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May 27, 2010 – Positive results from CREST (Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial) will be ...

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May 27, 2010 – One-year data presented this week at EuroPCR in Paris confirms sustained clinical outcomes with ...

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May 26, 2010 – In the constantly evolving battle for the best coronary stent, Boston Scientific said today it ...

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May 26, 2010 – The 12-month study results for a drug-eluting stent that uses hundreds of tiny holes, filled with ...

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May 25, 2010 – The highly anticipated first results of the RESOLUTE All Comers study were presented today during ...

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May 25, 2010 – The first patient has been implanted with a bare metal coronary stent mounted on a drug-eluting ...

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May 25, 2010 – A self-expanding, drug-eluting stent (DES) that just gained CE mark clearance in Europe is designed ...

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