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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November 4, 2007 – The antiplatelet drug prasugrel offered greater benefit than current, standard therapy for patients ...

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November 4, 2007 – A specific way of dosing eptifibatide appears equally effective as giving abciximab as an adjunct to ...

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November 4, 2007 – Drug-eluting stents to open blocked coronary arteries caused no more risks for death or heart ...

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October 30, 2007 - Cordis Corp. will launch in the U.S. and European its next generation carotid stent system, the ...

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October 29, 2007 - Boston Scientific Corp. announced positive three-year results from its CABERNET and BEACH ...

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October 23, 2007 – Boston Scientific Corp. announced five-year and final follow-up data from its TAXUS IV clinical trial ...

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Cordis Corp. introduced next generation carotid stent system, the PRECISE PRO RX Nitinol Self-Expanding Stent ...

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October 25, 2007 - Cordis Corp. announced at TCT 2007 the U.S. and European launch of Cordis’s next generation ...

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October 25, 2007 — Two carotid stenting trials examining outcomes in real-world patients demonstrated for the ...

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October 24, 2007 - Presented at the TCT 2007 meeting, a pooled analysis of safety data from Medtronic’s ENDEAVOR ...

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October 25, 2007 - Paieon Inc. demonstrated at TCT 2007 the CardiOp-StentOptimizer, a real-time imaging solution ...

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October 25, 2007 - Global Therapeutics, a Cook Medical company, said at TCT 2007 it will begin a clinical trial using ...

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OCTOBER 23, 2007 – Abbott’s fully bioabsorbable drug eluting stent platform for the treatment of coronary artery disease ...

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October 23, 2007 - ENDEAVOR IV reached its primary endpoint of target vessel failure non-inferiority when compared to ...

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October 23, 2007 – Patients who received the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting coronary stent had a lower risk of stent ...

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