HEART &#39;STENTS&#39; DON&#39;T EXTEND LIFE
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November 8, 2004 -- Stents, the tiny mesh tubes placed at the site of just-cleared blockages in heart arteries, help reduce the need for more artery-clearing procedures, but have no impact on long-term survival of patients, new research report said
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Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly 5 percent more likely to die a year or more later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, new research showed on Tuesday.
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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients getting drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared to the older bare-metal variety, according to a large data analysis released on Wednesday.
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The concerns that have been raised about the safety of drug-eluting stents at a major cardiology conference shouldn't mean it's time to go back to older treatments, the chief medical and scientific officer of Natick medical technology company Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday.
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An outside panel of health experts will examine whether drug-coated stents used to prop open coronary arteries can produce sometimes fatal blood clots, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
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The two manufacturers of drug-coated stents used to prop open the arteries of about 3 million people in the U.S. say the devices' benefits outweigh their risks, even though patients could face a small but significant risk of blood clots.
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Blood vessel plaques and the heart's pumping ability influence survival in people under 40 who've suffered a heart attack, new research shows.
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Implanting defibrillators in patients just weeks after a heart attack does not improve their chances of survival, according to an international study.
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Most patients with drug-coated stents face an increased risk of heart attacks and death, but it's unclear whether their already poor health or the devices are to blame, federal health advisers said Friday.
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A Food and Drug Administration panel tomorrow will consider one of the most urgent questions in medicine: what to do about the risk of blood clots caused by drug-coated stents, tiny medical devices implanted in the arteries of millions of people.
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Scientists report new developments in the use of stents, which stop blockages in coronary arteries.
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Patients given the blood-clot preventer Plavix after a heart attack or after receiving a stent have a far higher risk of heart attack or death in the three months after they stop taking the drug, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel began hearing evidence on Thursday about potential risks of drug-coated stents, the tiny tubes used to prop open arteries in millions of heart patients.
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Drug-coated stents were linked to a higher death rate when given to people with a certain type of heart attack, a finding that may limit doctors' use of the mesh tubes to prop open arteries.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson can't supply cardiac stents fast enough to capitalize on three recent recalls by archrival Boston Scientific Corp. , say cardiologists who use both companies' medical devices.
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but a longer life is not one of them, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in The Journal of Clinical Oncology
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Medical-device maker Boston Scientific Corp. said Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration approved an extended shelf life of nine months for its Taxus Express2 drug-eluting coronary stent system in the United States, up from six months.