A stent can be life-saving during a heart attack, but it's not always necessary for those with coronary artery disease.

Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(1):93-100. In-stent thrombosis More often seen when ≥1 stent used, long stented segments of coronary artery, drug-eluting stents, bifurcation lesion stenting Incomplete ...

Purpose: The mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics of sirolimus when used as part of a drug-eluting stent (DES) and the efficacy and cost of using DESs versus bare-metal stents are discussed.

While you won't always be able to prepare for a stent, there are some cases where you'll need to talk with your doctor ...

SAN ANTONIO. -- CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to start an investigative device exemption (IDE) trial for its novel ...

Having a stent placed in a coronary vessel to relieve chest pain may be of no benefit for some heart patients despite the procedure being one of the most common in cardiac care, doctors reported in a ...

The FDA approved a new emergency stent device to treat perforations in the blood vessels of the heart, the agency’s first new treatment option in the indication in 17 years. Deep tears in coronary ...

PARIS, France—It’s not a stent in a traditional sense, nor a scaffold that completely disappears over time, but a new device—one that “unchains” itself over time—has cleared an early hurdle by proving ...

On Tuesday, FDA announced that it has approved the first bioresorbable polymer stent, a development bound to spur competition between Abbott that makes the device and Boston Scientific that makes a ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the first six-year follow-up of a pivotal study of any drug-eluting stent, the clinical benefits of the CYPHER ® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent compared to a ...

A rise in heart disease will put demand on stent manufacturers. Over $8 billion worth of coronary stents will be sold annually by 2025, according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, ...