1. IntraOp Medical

... radiotherapy ("IORT") treatment of cancer, coronary/vascular restenosis and other medical applications. It is committed to advance both the science and clinical application of IORT by working closely with ...

2. ACC: Novel Stents May be More Effective
(Radiology Conferences/Conference News)

... or MI and P=NS for definite stent thrombosis). The new stent also had the lowest two-year rates for target vessel revascularization (7.7% versus 10.7% Cypher and 14.3% Endeavor), and for binary restenosis ...

3. Interim Results from COBEST Clinical Study
(Radiology Conferences/VIVA 2009)

... of balloon expandable covered stent technology to today's standard of care with bare metal stents. This clinical study comparison included binary restenosis and freedom from stent occlusion. Binary restenosis ...

4. VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials
(Radiology Conferences/VIVA 2009)

... difference in restenosis and freedom from occlusion rates when using the Advanta V12 versus a BMS. The study enrolled 123 patients (167 limbs). At 18 months, there were 69 limbs in the V12 group and 63 ...

5. Top Interventional Cardiologists and Innovators to Gather in Tel Aviv
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... will highlight numerous hot topics including new devices for trancatheter therapeutics, drug eluting stents, novel molecular therapeutics, vascular molecular biology, restenosis solutions, adjunctive drug ...

6. CRF Announces Late Breaking Trials to be Presented at TCT 2009
(Radiology Conferences/TCT 2009)

... Paclitaxel-Eluting vs. Sirolimus-Eluting Stents for Treatment of Sirolimus-Eluting Stent Restenosis SIRTAX-LATE: Five-Year Clinical and Angiographic Follow-up from a Prospective Randomized Trial of Paclitaxel-Eluting ...

7. Innovative technologies promise new solutions to cardiology's challenges
(Imported/Imported)

... or restenosis, and its complications, including heart attack. Dubbed CAPSID, the Computerized Automatic Pressure Sensor and Inflator Device is an alternative to manual techniques, which can injure the ...

8. New biodegradable magnesium stents for coronary arteries
(Imported/Imported)

... replaced by calcium and phosphorous through the body’s natural processes. However the trial also showed that angiographic restenosis (re-blocking of the artery) occurred in 47.5 per cent of patients ...

9. Initial benefit of intracoronary radiation with stenting not sustained
(Imported/Imported)

... to restenosis.Five-year follow up data of a clinical trial confirm that beta-irradiation at the time of bare metal stent placement in de novo coronary stenoses only transiently prevents neointimal proliferation ...

10. FDA approves Ostial Pro Stent Positioning System
(Imported/Imported)

... for the Johnson & Johnson drug eluding stent, Cypher, which dramatically reduces the likelihood of restenosis following angioplasty. ...

11. Medtronic to acquire Biophan MRI Safety Technology for $11m
(Communities/MRI)

... to market," stated Michael Weiner, President of Biophan. Biophan will continue its efforts to develop technologies to enable visualization of clotting and restenosis in stents under MRI, which is not ...

12. Vessel size affects outcome of sirolimus -- or paclitaxel-eluting stent implantation
(Imported/Imported)

... more effective than PES in reducing restenosis, and "this benefit is particularly pronounced in small vessels less able to accommodate neointimal hyperplasia, whereas the selection of a particular drug-eluting ...

13. Sirolimus stents exacerbate endothelial injury after MI
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... stents reduce restenosis rates and revascularization but may impair recovery from reperfusion-induced endothelial injury. To investigate, the researchers studied 29 patients with a first acute MI of the ...

14. Multisection CT accurately detects coronary stent restenosis
(Communities/CT)

In-stent restenosis can be accurately assessed by 64-section CT in selected patients, according to a report in the November issue of Radiology. In-stent restenosis can be accurately assessed by ...

15. Absorbable metal stents safe, effective, virtually undetectable within months
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... to late restenosis. "We conclude that absorbable metal stents are safe and associated with a long-term clinical safety profile," Dr. Waksman said. "The late intravascular ultrasound results demonstrate ...

16. Atherectomy simplifies bifurcated lesion stenting
(Imported/Imported)

... simple stents. The two remaining patients, with left main trunk bifurcation, required complex stenting. At nine months, one patient had restenosis of the main branch and three had restenosis of the side ...

17. Sirolimus stents may reduce restenosis in diabetics with coronary disease
(Imported/Imported)

Compared with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES), sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) appear to decrease the risk of in-stent late luminal loss in diabetics with coronary artery disease, new research shows.  ...

18. Stent coated to capture endothelial progenitor cells shows promise
(Imported/Imported)

... be associated with a lower risk of restenosis and stent thrombosis. The unique feature of the Genous EPC capture stent (OrbusNeich, Fort Lauderdale, FL) is that it is coated with anti-CD34 antibodies, ...

19. CABG preferred over stents; drug-eluting may be better than bare-metal type
(Imported/Imported)

... with lower short-term mortality. In a second study evaluating the relative benefits of drug-eluting stents and bare metal stents, drug-eluting stents appear to be superior in avoiding restenosis among ...

20. Investigational anti-restenosis drug pimecrolimus disappoints
(Imported/Imported)

... tissue, or neointimal hyperplasia, that causes in-stent restenosis. Instead, patients treated with pimecrolimus-eluting stents fared far worse than patients treated with stents that delivered a combination ...