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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October 7, 2008 – CeloNova BioSciences Inc. will showcase the technology behind the CATANIA Coronary Stent System ...

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October 1, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. said today the U.S. District Court in Delaware has entered judgment against ...

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September 30, 2008 – Czech Republic-based Tryton Medical Inc. said today it launched a novel Side Branch Stent System in ...

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September 25, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced it has received approval from the FDA to market its TAXUS ...

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September 19, 2008 – Last month, MIV announced continued positive results for VESTAsync, a polymer-free drug-eluting ...

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September 19, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced this week a decision by the U.S. District Court in Delaware ...

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September 17, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said this week it started two new trials of the Endeavor Resolute drug-eluting stent ...

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IDev Technologies’ SUPERA interwoven nitinol self-expanding stent is designed for palliative treatment of malignant ...

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September 11, 2008 -Cook Medical has completed enrollment in the first international clinical trial of a first-of ...

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The FDA recently cleared Boston Scientific Corp.’s PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System.


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September 5, 2008 - The results of the SYNTAX study, a head-to-head comparison between drug-eluting stents (DES) using ...

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The FDA recently cleared Boston Scientific Corp.’s PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System and Abbott Vascular’s ...

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Feature | Venkat Rajan, medical research analyst, Frost & Sullivan

This comparison chart features three categories of stents: coronary, carotid and peripheral. We gratefully acknowledge ...

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September 2, 2008 - The safety debate about drug-eluting stents (DES) is still ongoing and in these times of uncertainty ...

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September 2, 2008 – Boston Scientific Corp. today announced positive one-year results from the European and ...

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