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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January 22, 2009 - Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. said this week it received CE Mark for its FlexStent Femoropopliteal ...

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January 20, 2009 - Preliminary data being presented at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) 2009 ...

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January 13, 2009 - Micell Technologies, a development-stage biomedical device company dedicated to developing ...

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January 6, 2009 - Boston Scientific Corp. today said it acquired Labcoat Ltd., a privately held, development-stage drug ...

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January 5, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. today announced the first enrollment in the company’s FDA-approved clinical trial of ...

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January 5, 2009 - Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) yields better short-term results than carotid artery stenting (CAS) in ...

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December 22, 2008 - C. R. Bard Inc. recently received FDA clearance to market the E-Luminexx Vascular Stent - a ...

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December 18, 2008 - Abbott this week said it started the SPIRIT Small Vessel, a clinical trial evaluating a 2.25mm size ...

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December 18, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. today announced enrollment of the first patient in the CABANA post-market ...

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December 15, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. today announced FDA approval of its Express SD Renal Monorail Premounted ...

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December 5, 2008 - CeloNova BioSciences Inc. said this week it expanded the areas in which it is commercializing the ...

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November 14, 2008 – Overall, in patients with a common form of non-STEMI there is not a significant difference in the ...

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November 14, 2008 - A stent that entices artery-lining cells to coat it works as well, or better than, drug-eluting ...

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November 13, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. today started its U.S. market launch of the Endeavor Sprint drug-eluting stent ...

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November 13, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said yesterday its enrollment in the 2,300-patient RESOLUTE All-Comers (R-AC) ...

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