Researchers led by Leif Thuesen, MD, of Aarhus University Hospital (Aarhus, Denmark), presented 5-year results from the Nordic Bifurcation study, which followed 405 patients treated with ...

on smooth-muscle cells (Figure 1). Early-generation stents released sirolimus or paclitaxel and had stainless-steel platforms, whereas new-generation stents release everolimus or zotarolimus and ...

Many cardiologists are reluctant to change practice in part because patients who get stents to keep the artery open report feeling better right away, experts said. NYU Langone cardiologist Dr ...

Baseline characteristics are shown in Table 3. A total of 2.0 ± 1.2 stents per procedure were deployed, with a total of 1.1 stents/lesion. Bivalirudin was used in 85% of patients. The procedure ...

A mean of 1.08 stents (length, 21.8 mm) were implanted per patient. The rate of ischemia-driven target-vessel revascularization at nine months was reduced from 12.0 percent with the implantation ...

NEW BRUNSWICK -- Johnson & Johnson said Boston Scientific will pay the company $1.7 billion to settle two suits related to patents for stents. Boston Scientific Corp. will pay Johnson & Johnson's ...

1 Stent thrombosis was significantly reduced with OCT-guided PCI. Previous randomised trials have demonstrated improved clinical outcomes with intravascular imaging-guided PCI compared with ...

Over the course of 8 months, the patient underwent repeated ERCPs, during which the stents were upsized from 1 stent to 2 then 3 side-by-side 10-French stents. Despite long-term plastic stenting ...