Little Data on Stentâs Most Common Use
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The device designed for use in bile ducts is often placed in arteries and veins, even though it has undergone scant testing for such uses.
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WASHINGTON - 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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Boston Scientific Corp. wants investors to look beyond its cardiac stents. The tiny wire-mesh tubes have become the hottest-selling medical device in Boston Scientific's history, and were the main reason the Natick company yesterday reported its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled.
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Expensive drug-coated stents -- used to prop open clogged coronary arteries -- are not worth using in many patients, Swiss researchers said on Friday.
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Drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open may increase the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, but there is no conclusive evidence that the devices boost the likelihood of having a heart attack or dying if used as recommended, an expert panel said yesterday.
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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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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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A new type of heart "stent" has been developed to unblock diseased arteries and then dissolve without a trace.
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A panel of experts reaches mixed conclusions on the safety and effectiveness of drug-coated stents.
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Coronary stents don&#39;t improve the long-term survival rates of heart patients, a Duke University Medical Center study contends.
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A tiny tent-like device implanted into the heart appears to block strokes caused by a common irregular heartbeat, sealing off a spot where dangerous blood clots form, German and U.S. researchers reported Wednesday...
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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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NEW YORK  - One of the newest treatments  for fibroids, a procedure called uterine artery embolization  (UAE) that cuts off blood to the benign tumors, is usually  considered only suitable for women who have finished having  babies. However, women can conceive and carry a child to term  following UAE, a Canadian team reports.
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Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to die six months to two years later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, research showed on Tuesday.
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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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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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Initial results with a bio-absorbable metal stent show that the novel device works as intended -- to prop open blocked leg arteries before being fully absorbed into the artery wall, so that complications common with standard stents don't occur.