... ) and binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of a bare metal stent in heart attack patients. The results ... versus otherwise identical bare metal stents. More than 120 national and international interventional cardiology ...
... for years. After initially proving more effective than bare metal stents in preventing restenosis, drug-eluting ... in heart attacks, when compared with those who received bare metal stents, but no significant difference in the incidence ...
Drug-eluting stents were safe and superior to bare metal stents in preventing death and heart attacks among 262,700 "real-world" patients enrolled in a nationwide registry of cardiovascular disease.
... the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents. The study showed that in heart ... revascularization (TLR) and binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of bare-metal stents after 1 year ...
... ) and binary angiographic restenosis when compared to the use of bare-metal stents after one year. Additionally, the primary safety ... are made regarding drug-eluting and bare-metal stents in the highest-risk patients, those in the early ...
... (paclitaxel) was safer and more effective than a bare-metal stent; and that the administration of the anticoagulant medication bivalirudin enhanced ... , the implantation of a paclitaxel-eluting stent compared to a bare-metal stent resulted in: Significant 42 ...
... second generation drug-eluting stent Xience V performs well in patients having primary ... infarction, and has a better safety profile than that of bare metal stents, according to results of the EXAMINATION (Evaluation of Xience ...
... -coated balloon inserted in a narrowed bare metal stent is a promising therapy for restoring blood flow, according to research (Abstract 10244) presented at the American ...
... -saving devices, like coronary stents. Stents are flexible metal tubes inserted into coronary ... of a heart attack. There are basically two types of stents: bare metal stents and drug-eluting ... . Weinfurt says that researchers’ statements about the efficacy and propriety of stents are closely evaluated because they directly affect ...
... either Taxus drug-eluting stents or a bare-metal stent. Data on this portion of the study – also a landmark comparison of drug-eluting stents to bare-metal stents – will be available in October at CRF ...
... to a control group of patients who got bare metal stents -- at 90 days, 1 year ... – averaging $16,000 -- outpaces that of a bare metal stent, which costs about $14,000, the Penn ... to 15 percent of patients who received bare-metal stents. Few patients in either arm ...
... to increase the risk of death, compared to bare-metal stents, according to a study in the June 25 issue ... 2002 through March 2003 when only bare-metal stents were available and 28,086 similar ... and 38.5 percent received a bare-metal stent. Follow-up data were available through ...
LEBANON, N.H., June 30 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say the increasing use of drug-releasing coronary artery stents does not increase the risk of death, compared with bare-metal stents.
... mesh behind, more closely resembling a bare metal stent. "The results from LEADERS are significant, as they demonstrate for the first time that a drug-eluting stent with a biodegradable polymer is just as safe and effective ...
... were used in daily practice; the bare-metal stent and the drug-eluting stent. The latter is coated with an antiproliferative ... LR, the EPC-capturing stent is being compared with the bare-metal stent in patients with a low risk ...
