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Durable versus biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents in all-comers

Open Heart

Background Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have become the gold standard of coronary angioplasty since their inception in 2002. vs 57.5%, p=0.010), a greater average number of stents implanted per patient (1.72±0.92 To date, no study has shown the superiority of one type of polymer compared with the other.

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Post-stent chest pain, revisited

Heart Sisters

Heart patients with persistent or recurrent post-stent chest pain present “an unmet clinical need”, according to the European Journal of Cardiology.

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Multiple coronary artery perforation as a fatal complication during the management of an undeflatable stent balloon: a case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundAn undeflatable stent balloon following its inflation during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a rare and unpredictable complication that can lead to serious consequences. Following stent deployment, the balloon failed to deflate and remained inflated within the LAD.

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Early Win for Preemptive Stents on Vulnerable Coronary Plaque

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- ATLANTA -- The concept of using stents to seal off non-flow-limiting vulnerable plaques, before they have a chance to rupture, worked out in the first major trial testing this provocative idea. Compared with standard medical.

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Dual-Antiplatelet Therapy After Drug-Eluting Stenting in ACS

JAMA Cardiology

This systematic review and network meta-analysis investigates the optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents.

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HonorHealth Research Institute First in Southwest to Implant New Stroke Prevention Stent

DAIC

This new system combines a truly innovative stent design,” said Dr. Ramaiah, a former director of the Arizona Heart Hospital. “We She already has three stents in her heart and so many stents and replacement arteries in both her legs that she’s lost count. The physician who performed the procedure, Venkatesh Ramaiah, M.D.,

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Philips launches Duo Venous Stent System for Treatment of Symptomatic Venous Outflow Obstruction

DAIC

and an investigator in the VIVID study , which contributed to the device’s FDA approval – successfully used the Duo Venous Stent System for the first time outside of a clinical trial. Duo Hybrid has a distinct integrated design that combines multiple zones of differing mechanical properties into a single stent [3].

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