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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July 31, 2008 - Medtronic Inc. said today it initiated the first investigational sites in the U.S. to participate in ...

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July 31, 2008 – No major difference was found in long-term safety or efficacy between sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) and ...

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July 17, 2008 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. today said its Protea ultra-thin cobalt-alloy bare metal stent has excelled ...

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July 14, 2008 - Micrus Endovascular Corp. today said the Pharos Vitesse Intracranial Stent Study for Ischemic Therapy ...

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July 10, 2008 - Datascope Corp. said today it exercised its option to acquire the Peripheral Vascular Stent business of ...

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Feature | Stents | Ellen W. Rothschild, RN, MS

(Editor's note: this article was updated in March 2017 with links at the bottom to more current stent technology ...

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July 8, 2008 - Expanding the application of endovascular aortic repair, Medtronic Inc. today announced two major ...

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July 7, 2008 - OrbusNeich today said data recently presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of ...

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Boston Scientific Corp. offers the PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary ...

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July 1, 2008 - An interventional cardiology team this week led by Professor Patrick W. Serruys, M.D., Ph.D, successfully ...

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June 25, 2008 – Global Therapeutics received CE Mark approval for a new cobalt chromium bare metal coronary stent, the ...

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June 16, 2008 - Mindray Medical International Ltd. received FDA 510(k) clearance for its DC-3 color ultrasound system. ...

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June 16, 2008 - Datascope Corp. said it has exercised its option to acquire the Peripheral Vascular Stent business of ...

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June 12, 2008 – The registry arm of a clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of Cook Medical’s ...

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June 12, 2008 - Sorin Group closed the sale of its peripheral stent business to Datascope Corp., divesting its noncore ...

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