The impact of overlap of drug-eluting stents on clinical and angiographic outcomes is controversial. Individuals with long coronary lesions requiring implantation of multiple stents are an ...

This case is unique because it documents a rare occurrence of a Type IV stent fracture following percutaneous coronary ...

Currently available DES have maximum stent lengths in the low-30-mm range. "As soon as you need to go beyond that, you need to overlap stents, and there are multiple issues associated with ...

The impact of using a single stent to cover all of the lesion or the use of multiple overlapping stents was also associated with a better outcome in SES-treated patients ( Table 3).

Study finds one compressed stent is sometimes more effective than two overlapping stents for brain aneurysms. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter.

A novel 48-mm stent for the treatment of diffuse de novo coronary artery lesions was found to be safe and effective at 1 year, with a high level of device deliverability, a speaker reported.The ...

Overlapping of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds was linked to increased rates of periprocedural MI but no immediate or long-term effects on cardiac death, target lesion revascularization or stent ...

Pooled-analysis of five clinical trials found that patients requiring treatment with two or more overlapping stents for long artery blockages experienced better outcomes when receiving CYPHER ...

It is also uncertain why the increased rates of stent thrombosis seen more than 1 year after implantation even with on-label use (0.44% with the Taxus stent vs. 0.07% with bare-metal stents, P=0. ...

The Xience Skypoint 48 stent had a target lesion failure (TLF) rate of 5.7% at 1 year, with a 95% CI upper bound of 9.5% that fell within the performance goal of 20%, reported researchers led by ...