[24] A total of 3386 patients have now completed 6-month follow-up. The combined stent thrombosis ... of the Optical Coherence Tomography Drug Eluting Stent Investigation (OCTDESI)trial; part ...

Purpose: The mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics of sirolimus when used as part of a drug ... To date, four major clinical trials have demonstrated the sirolimus-eluting stent to be safe ...

The Espirit everolimus-eluting scaffold. [Image from the Abbott website] Abbott (NYSE:ABT) today announced data demonstrating ...

Drug-eluting stents are a newer type that has mostly replaced bare-metal stents. The main treatment for stent thrombosis is procedures to break up the blood clot and open your stent. These ...

Abbott has delivered new, longer-term data from a clinical study of its dissolving stent for severe peripheral artery disease ...

Elixir Medical, a developer of disruptive technologies to treat cardiovascular disease, today announced late-breaking data demonstrating significant b ...

TCT discussant Joanna Wykrzykowska, MD, PhD, of University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, said she was "very ...

Non-drug eluting devices, such as bare-metal stents, catheters, and implantable medical devices, are widely used in procedures where drug elution is not necessary, or where a more mechanical or ...

TCT 15: Impact of High Lipoprotein(a) Levels on 5-Year Clinical Outcomes Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Drug-Eluting Stent in Korean Population Receive the the latest news, research ...

Abbott has unveiled positive long-term data for its Esprit below-the-knee (BTK) stent in treating the most severe form of peripheral artery disease (PAD). The data, which was presented as a ...

Results from the large-scale randomized ECLIPSE trial found that a lesion preparation strategy of routine orbital atherectomy had similar outcomes compared with conventional balloon angioplasty prior ...

Non-drug eluting devices, such as bare-metal stents, catheters, and implantable medical devices, are widely used in procedures where drug elution is not necessary, or where a more mechanical or ...