Drug stents more likely to clot blood: analysis
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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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GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Federal advisers yesterday said that drug-coated stents, which have been implanted in millions, offer clear benefits to many patients but present higher clotting risks to others, suggesting they may be overused.
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Experts expressed concerns Sunday that drug-coated heart stents &#151; metal-mesh tubes used to prop open coronary arteries &#151; may in rare instances lead to potentially fatal blood clots.
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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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Two drugs are not always better than one when it comes to using blood thinners to treat clogged arteries in the legs, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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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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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
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The most exhaustive studies yet published on drug-coated stents show that the widely used heart devices are no better at preventing heart attacks and death than the older, cheaper devices they replaced, and in some cases may be slightly worse.
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Drug-coated heart stents might not increase the risk of blood clots as much as previously thought, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of cardiologists.
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Drug-coated heart stents may not increase the risk of blood clots as much as previously thought, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of cardiologists.
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NEW YORK  - When people with diabetes  undergo coronary artery stenting to open clogs, women are more  at risk for major adverse events than men, doctors in Germany  report.
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Drug-coated stents that prop open the arteries of about 3 million people in the U.S. don't increase the risk of heart attack or death when used as labeled but may put patients at risk for blood clots, health advisers said Thursday.
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Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday will consider the risks of drug-coated stents in patients with medical complications who are not approved for the artery-opening heart devices.
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A panel of experts reaches mixed conclusions on the safety and effectiveness of drug-coated stents.
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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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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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Researchers in Israel are developing   a new technique for administering drugs that could help prevent   heart attacks after angioplasty to clear clogged arteries, the   research institute said.