Stents Don&#39;t Lengthen Life
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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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Drug-coated stents -- tiny wire-mesh tubes used to prop open clogged heart arteries -- may not be as dangerous as earlier thought, Swedish researchers who had raised concerns over the devices said on Sunday.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - The broad use of drug-coated heart stents in unapproved patients came under scrutiny on Friday as U.S. advisers weighed the risks of the tiny tubes implanted in millions to keep arteries open.
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The Natick medical devices company is using profits from its successful Taxus stent to expand into new areas. By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff | December 6, 2004.
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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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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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Drug-coated stents -- tiny, wire-mesh   tubes used to prop open diseased arteries -- may increase the   risk of potentially fatal blood clots, researchers said on   Sunday.
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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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A flurry of recent research has raised alarm about the safety of a new generation of stents that have quickly become the most commonly used devices for treating clogged arteries, creating widespread concern about how to care for millions of heart-disease patients.
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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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Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients who have drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared with the older bare-metal variety, according to a large data analysis by the Cleveland Clinic released yesterday.
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The new drug-coated stents implanted to keep arteries open might increase the risk of a later heart attack if a patient stops taking clot-preventing drugs such as aspirin even briefly, Dutch cardiologists warn.
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NEW YORK  - 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.
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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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&#39;Not many years ago, we couldn&#39;t do much for people with strokes -- except try to prevent the next one.&#39; ...
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An Ohio State University research project indicates that the terminally ill cannot extend their lives just by trying to &#39;hold on&#39; until Christmas or a special occasion.
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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.