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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May 22, 2009 - New data presented yesterday at EuroPCR from an international, post-approval, single-arm study ...

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May 21, 2009 - InspireMD Ltd. said today it completed enrollment for the MAGICAL Trial (MGuard in Acute ...

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May 10, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. Friday announced the settlement of all royalty disputes with Johnson and Johnson (J ...

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May 8, 2009 - Preliminary data presented yesterday at the 32nd annual SCAI Scientific Sessions show that 82 ...

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May 6, 2009 - Spectranetics Corp. yesterday said it made a pre-IDE (investigational device exemption) submission ...

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May 5, 2009 - ITGI Medical Ltd. Said last week the FDA granted HUD (humanitarian use device) designation to Over ...

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April 20, 2009 - Boston Scientific recently disclosed the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the ...

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April 16, 2009 -Twelve-month data from the ZEST trial presented at ACC 2009 showed the Endeavor Drug-Eluting Stent ...

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April 13, 2009 - To improve hospital performance in door-to-balloon (DTB) times nationally, the American College ...

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April 10, 2009 - The results of the ZEST randomized controlled trial released at ACC 2009 showed the Cypher ...

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April 9, 2009 - Researchers say a larger trial is needed to effectively test a novel stent designed to speed ...

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April 3, 2009 - Long-term data presented at ACC.09 from Abbott’s SPIRIT II clinical trial demonstrated the ...

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April 2, 2009 — Abbott yesterday announced the initiation of the MOBILITY clinical trial to study the safety and ...

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April 1, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. this week began the international launch of the Driver Sprint RX Coronary Stent ...

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March 30, 2009 - An AHRQ-funded study finds a lower risk of death and heart attack in heart disease patients 65 ...

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