Article: Slim, Flexible Stents Approved to Treat Heart Disease.

Article: DRUG-COATED STENTS KEEP BLOOD FLOWING
United Press International;  March 17, 2002 ;     679 words ......promising in diabetic patients, a group that traditionally...stent failure. The 120 patients had serolimus-eluting...compared to results in 118 patients treated with bare stents...Fajadet said that sirolimus coated stents virtually eliminated...around the stent, while patients ...

Article: COATED STENTS MAY RAISE CLOT RISK, STUDIES SUGGEST DOCTORS THINK THAT SOME STENT PATIENTS MAY BE AT HIGHER RISK OF CLOTS IF THEY DON'T KEEP TAKING ANTI-CLOTTING PILLS.(FRONT)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  December 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Corp. Labels say patients should take baby...Now it seems the coated stents may keep this essential...were higher with coated stents after three years...studies where similar patients are assigned to...it found that coated stents had five times...and in low-risk ...

Article: Drug-coated stents can raise risk of clots.
Newsday (Melville, NY);  September 14, 2006 ;     698 words ......the drawbacks of coated stents, the tiny mesh...and replugging. Coated stents replaced bare metal...document problems with coated stents, suggesting a return...newly diagnosed patients. Last week a team...estimated 6 million coated stents have been ...

Article: Panel hints too many get coated stents FDA advisers shake heads at the rising use in more complex cases
The Boston Globe;  December 8, 2006 ;     550 words ......yesterday said that drug- coated stents, which have been implanted...clear benefits to many patients but present higher clotting...sweeping changes in how drug-coated stents are used, such as limiting...slower healing. Drug-coated versions also increase patients' risks for ...

Article: Doctors seeing less risk in drug-coated stents
International Herald Tribune;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......disadvantage in using drug-coated stents in most patients after angioplasty...of American heart patients decided to avoid drug-coated stents altogether. One...most of the drug-coated stents were being put in patients who were sicker...

Article: Study says drug-coated stents do not reduce risks any more than uncoated ones.
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ......line of drug-coated stents. Pooled results...percent of patients given bare...percent of patients given coated stents. The analysis...cardiac events of patients given coated stents was half that of patients given plain...

Article: FDA Weighs Risks, Benefits of Drug-Coated Stents
NPR All Things Considered;  December 7, 2006 ;     655 words ......people with the coated stents are more likely...done a lot to help patients avoid coronary...around with drug coated stents in their arteries...reduced the number of patients who will need to...blood clots from coated stents. Dr. DAVID KONG...recommendations that ...

Article: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SEEKS OK FOR TAXUS HOPES TO BE 2D FIRM TO SELL COATED STENTS
The Boston Globe;  June 20, 2003 ;     619 words ......them from narrowing again. Coated stents, considered a significant...year, more than 900,000 patients nationwide undergo angioplasties...percent to 30 percent of patients, scar tissue forms, replugging...known as restenosis. If coated stents live up to their promise...year in sales ...

Article: Stents with a difference: drug-coated stents are potent weapons in the war on heart disease--but they aren't for everyone with clogged arteries.(Disease/Disorder overview)
Healthy Years;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......sometimes called drug-coated ) stents have lived up to their...10 to 30 percent of patients who receive bare metal stents. When patients experience restenosis...angioplasty. Two FDA-approved coated stents are now in use. The...following angioplasty. Coated stents are a ...

Article: Heparin-Coated Stents Do Not Protect Cancer Patients from Cardiac Complications after Noncardiac Surgery
The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......positive correlation between patients having cancer and having...0.044) and between patients with cancer being on...After stent placement, patients with cancer undergoing...compared with noncancer patients despite continued antithrombotic use. In these patients, alternatives to ...

Article: Drug-coated stents safe for patients with complex artery disease.
Drug Week;  May 7, 2004 ;     461 words ......MAY 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with multiple or complex coronary artery...caveat is that cardiologists can't tell patients that they will be 100% free of the potential...researchers followed 155 consecutive patients treated with multiple sirolimus-eluting...

Article: FDA approves new drug-coated stents.
United Press International;  April 25, 2003 ;     542 words ......of Miami Lakes, Fla. In one U.S. study, 1,058 patients received either the new drug-coated stent or an...stent. After nine months, only 4.2 percent of the patients with the treated stent needed additional surgery...in the regular stent group. Only 8.9 percent of patients with the coated ...

Article: Drug-coated stents make medical comeback Doctors see less risk than alternatives, after fears arose over deadly blood clots
International Herald Tribune;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......thousands of cardiac patients, many physicians...suggesting that drug- coated stents might be causing...safety of drug-coated stents is seen as a major...good results in patients relying solely...of thousands of patients, the common view...in using drug-coated ...

Article: Drug-coated stents may prevent arteries from reclogging, studies find.
The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  January 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ......to have repeat customers. Still, patients keep coming back for angioplasty...many as 30 percent of angioplasty patients, Vice President Dick Cheney among...called restenosis. By inserting a drug-coated stent, which is essentially a scaffolding...have dramatically dropped. The drug-coated ...