Article: Anti-clotting drug advised with coated stents.

Article: Drug-coated stents can cause clotting: Victoria ...
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX);  February 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... must continue paying $100 a month for Plavix, and that's with insurance. In August, Butler's doctor recommended she take Plavix for about a year, and other doctors nationwide ... percent of patients who stopped using Plavix, or drugs like it, died. Less than ...

Article: POPULAR DRUG-COATED STENTS ARE CHALLENGED; LOCAL ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  November 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... thinning drug Plavix longer than previously ... of using drug-coated stents far exceed the risks ... that some drug-coated stents may slightly increase ... thinning drugs like Plavix. The companies that make drug-coated stents initially recommended ...

Transcript: FDA Weighs Risks, Benefits of Drug-Coated Stents
NPR All Things Considered;  December 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... patients who kept taking Plavix longer than six months were ... suggests that long term use of Plavix could offset the risk of blood clots from coated stents. Dr. DAVID KONG (Duke ... drug eluting stents receive Plavix for either three or six months ...

Article: COATED STENTS MAY RAISE CLOT RISK, STUDIES SUGGEST ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  December 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... doctors prescribe Plavix for up to a year. Now it seems the coated stents may keep this essential ... Without the lining or Plavix, clots can form ... it found that coated stents had five times ... metal ones. Taking Plavix essential Some ...

Article: Coated stents under scrutiny: FDA panel to study ...
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN);  December 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... patients who receive drug-coated stents will reach a crescendo ... apply equally to drug-coated stents from Boston Scientific ... The majority of drug-coated stents are used in patients ... staying on the pricey drug Plavix for longer periods of ...

Article: Clots linked to drug-coated stents
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 25, 2007 ;     505 words ... ... Editions Drug-coated stents are more likely ... Squibb Co.'s Plavix blood thinner and ... getting 5,422 drug-coated stents and 11,730 bare ... blood vessel. The Plavix findings don't mean that drug-coated stents, designed to release ...

Article: Drug-coated stents can raise risk of clots.
Newsday (Melville, NY);  September 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... clogging. An estimated 6 million coated stents have been implanted worldwide ... therapy -- aspirin and the drug Plavix. Even though all heart patients ... life, they are weaned from Plavix. Patients with drug-coated stents may have to remain on the ...