These types are called coronary stents. Usually made of metal mesh, they’re put into arteries after a procedure to expand the artery called a percutaneous coronary intervention or, its more common ...

A drug-eluting stent, or DES, is a small, metal mesh tube placed in a blocked coronary artery. The metal is coated in medicine and helps reopen your artery and keep it open. ‌ Stents are used to treat ...

When the arteries that supply blood to the heart become narrowed or clogged, the condition is known as Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). It makes it difficult for the blood to flow to the heart muscle.

Recent data have suggested that patients with coronary disease in large arteries are at increased risk for late cardiac events after percutaneous intervention with first-generation drug-eluting stents ...

Recent reports suggest that off-label use of drug-eluting stents is associated with an increased incidence of adverse events. Whether the use of bare-metal stents would yield different results is ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Stents are often inserted in a heart vessel to keep the vessel propped ...

New research suggests that a biodegradable drug-eluting stent could be safer than its bare-metal counterpart. Swiss scientists determined that the next-generation product, which releases the drug ...

Based on this new definition, the incidence of stent thrombosis was not statistically different, reported Cutlip. "I think the definitions will give us a better indication of the risk; although we ...

Washington, DC - In a classic example of too little, too late, results of the EUROSTAR II trial show that the now-defunct paclitaxel-eluting CoStar stent is significantly better than its bare-metal ...

Endoscopic placement of biliary stents is recommended to prevent biliary obstruction in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer undergoing preoperative chemoradiation. Plastic rather than metal ...

Global medical device maker Boston Scientific received CE approval for its REBEL Platinum Chromium coronary stent system last week, paving the way for its sale in Europe. The REBEL bare metal stent is ...