Newer stents seen safe, effective in heart attacks
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Drug-eluting stents are safe and   effective for use in patients who had severe heart attacks, but   the potential risk of blood clots needed more study before the   devices could be recommended for all heart attack patients,   according to an editorial in a major medical journal.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to release new testing requirements for drug-coated heart stents in the next few weeks, the regulatory agency's device chief, Daniel Schultz, told the Wall Street Journal.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel on Friday was divided over whether current data warrant changes to drug-coated heart stent labels for their use in patients with more medical complications unapproved for the device.
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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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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel unanimously said the benefits of drug-coated heart stents outweigh their risks when used as directed, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Boston Scientific Corp. found a slightly higher risk of blood clotting in patients implanted with its newer drug-coated stents compared with older bare-metal versions, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Patients who get the leading drug-coated stents to prop open coronary arteries rather than bare-metal stents run no higher risk of death, according to a new report by a multinational team of doctors.
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Federal advisers heard conflicting data today about the safety of new drug-oozing stents used to keep clogged arteries open as the experts struggled to advise government regulators about whether the risks of the devices outweigh their benefits for millions of patients.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--At St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, heart attack patients are receiving faster treatment.
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Doctors can safely use drug-coated stents to open up complicated blockages in coronary arteries for which the devices were not originally designed, according to new research. In fact, they appear to work better than older, bare-metal stents in those situations.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.    One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if injecting certain drugs directly into diseased arteries works better than commonly used stents in keeping arteries clear...
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Johnson &amp; Johnson and Boston Scientific, the top makers of drug-coated heart stents, both released studies saying their $2,200 devices are safer than bare-metal stents that cost half as much. The studies capped three days of debate at Europe's biggest medical conference, the World Cardiology Congress in Barcelona, sparked by independent researchers who said bare-metal stents were safer. The Boston ...
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Combining stented angioplasty and robotically assisted &#39;&#39;keyhole&#39;&#39; bypass surgery is safe and may help patients with extensive cardiovascular disease, researchers report.
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Kaiser Permanente, one of the biggest   U.S. health and hospital systems, has begun to study the safety   of drug-coated stents amid new signals that the widely used   heart devices might lead to fatal blood clots.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials asked experts Thursday whether the drug-coated stents used to prop open the arteries of about 3 million people in the U.S. pose a heightened risk of death or raise other safety concerns that require action.
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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely 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.