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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April 10, 2008 - According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine this week, three-year data from ...

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April 8, 2008 - The first-in-man study funded by MIV Therapeutics Inc. (MIV) showed that MIV's VESTAsync stents ...

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April 8, 2008 - A study using Itamar Medical's Endo-PAT2000, an FDA-cleared device used to assess endothelial function ...

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April 8, 2008 - People who are taking three or more drugs and still have high blood pressure have a condition known as ...

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April 8, 2008 - The government on Monday said it would raise payments next year to insurers that provide healthcare ...

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April 3, 2008 - Patients treated with the TAXUS Stent had significant reductions in one-year revascularization rates in ...

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April 1, 2008 - Despite the known increased rates of mortality and restenosis for diabetics versus non-diabetics in ...

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April 1, 2008 - “Real-world” use of a novel drug-eluting stent coated with a biodegradable polymer is associated with ...

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April 1, 2008 - Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may be a reasonable alternative to bypass surgery in patients ...

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April 1, 2008 – Boston Scientific welcomed results from Abbott’s prospective, randomized, single blind, two-year SPIRIT ...

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April 1, 2008 – Boston Scientific announced results from an analysis two-year data from more than 7,000 patients in the ...

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April 1, 2008 — A large community-based registry of patients treated with drug eluting stents is providing important ...

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April 1, 2008 — Early results of the SPIRIT II study showed that the XIENCE V sstent was superior to the Taxus stent in ...

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April 1, 2008 — An angioplasty balloon coated with a drug that reduces renarrowing of the coronary arteries appears to ...

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March 31, 2008 — When a clot develops inside a coronary stent, it can block blood flow to the heart, potentially causing ...

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