June 9, 2008 - Atrium Medical has begun enrollment of the first patients for their CONFIRM 1, First-in-Man (FIM) drug ...
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, bioresorbableĀ stents, and renal stents.Ā
June 3, 2008 - The CE certified Over and Under Pericardium Covered Stent (PCS) commercial implantation and first ...
June 2, 2008 - Abbott has submitted an application for Seizo Hanbai Shonin (Marketing Authorization License) to Japan's ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
May 30, 2008 - Three patients with established cardiac ischemia recently became the first recipients of the ...
The vProtect Luminal Shield is a self-expanding intracoronary prosthesis designed to limit arterial injury that ...
May 27, 2008 - Angiomax (bivalirudin) significantly improved net clinical adverse events by 24 percent as well as ...
May 22, 2008 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. has enrolled the first patients in the registration trial of its VESTAsync polymer ...
May 20, 2008 - There were no device-related events at 30 days follow-up of the first 13 patients in the OPEN I clinical ...
As new drug-eluting stents (DES) receive premarket approval (PMA) from the FDA, despite an abrupt downturn in the market ...
Medtronicās Endeavor Zotarolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System is engineered for the treatment of coronary artery ...
May 1, 2008 - The clinical impact of the first-ever prohealing stent, OrbusNeich's Genous Bio-engineered R stent, is ...
April 25, 2008 - An everolimus-eluting stent compared with a paclitaxel-eluting stent resulted in reduced angiographic ...
April 25, 2008 - The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and the American College of ...
April 18, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corpo. has received approval for the sale of its TAXUS Liberte paclitaxel-eluting ...
Medtronic's Talent Abdominal Stent Graft is FDA cleared for use on the CoilTrac Delivery System, a medical device that ...