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Neurovascular Stent System Launched in U.S.
July 26, 2010 – Today a fourth-generation intracranial aneurysm stent system was released in both the U.S. and European markets. Boston Scientific’s Neuroform EZ...
Read More July 26, 2010
FDA Asked to Review Peripheral Drug-Eluting Stent
June 14, 2010 – A self-expanding, polymer-free, drug-eluting peripheral stent has been submitted for premarket approval (PMA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Read More June 14, 2010
Study Reveals 86.2 Percent SFA Patency With Self-Expanding DES
May 27, 2010 – One-year data presented this week at EuroPCR in Paris confirms sustained clinical outcomes with Cook Medical's drug-eluting peripheral stent, Zilver PTX....
Read More May 27, 2010
Delivery System Makes for More Precise Stent Placement
May 21, 2010 – A new stent delivery system is designed to be reliable, easy to use and precise when delivering the self-expanding Supera peripheral vascular stent. The...
Read More May 21, 2010
Self-Expanding SFA Stent Enters U.S., Japanese Trials
May 12, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the way for a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Misago self-expanding...
Read More May 12, 2010
Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent Shows Positive Two-Year Data
May 10, 2010 – Patients treated with the Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent maintained clinical improvement at two years, according to interim results from the...
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FDA Clears Self-Expanding Stent for the Iliacs
April 22, 2010 – Broadening its product scope into the peripheral artery disease market, Medtronic today received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for...
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Drug-Eluting Stents Help Patients Avoid Amputation
April 21, 2010 – More than 100,000 amputations are performed each year in the United States on patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), the most severe form of...
Read More April 21, 2010
First Premounted, Balloon-Expandable Stent Cleared for Iliac Arteries
March 11, 2010 – The FDA has cleared the first low-profile, premounted, balloon-expandable stent system for use in treating iliac artery disease. The Express LD Iliac...
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New Class of Endovascular Implant Receives CE Mark
March 2, 2010 — A new stent and delivery system for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) received CE mark approval this week. The SAMBA Stent and...
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Self-Expanding Stent Sizes for SFA Launched in Europe
January 27, 2010 – New 6, 7 and 8 mm diameters of the Maris Plus self-expanding peripheral stent system, were launched today in Europe for interventions involving the...
Read More January 27, 2010
VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials Highlight Advances in PAD Treatments
November 10, 2009 – The latest data from seven studies focused on the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were presented in the late-breaking trials session of...
Read More November 10, 2009
Results Presented On Use Of FlexStent in the Superficial Femoral Artery
October 27, 2009 – Interim six-month clinical results on the use of the FlexStent Femoropopliteal Self Expanding Stent System in the Superficial Femoral Artery were...
Read More October 26, 2009
Cook Unveils Integrated Line Peripheral Arterial Disease Devices
October 21, 2009 – Cook Medical is introducing six new products in parallel to provide better treatment options to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD), including new...
Read More October 21, 2009
Medtronic Study Uses Stents to Treat Erectile Dysfunction
October 14, 2009 – Medtronic Inc. yesterday initiated a feasibility study of an interventional treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) that uses a specially-designed...
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Zilver PTX DES Could Greatly Reduce Need for Leg Amputations, Bypass Surgery
October 5, 2009 – In a breakthrough development that could dramatically reduce the number of leg amputations and painful bypass graft surgeries performed annually on...
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FlexStent Femoropopliteal Stent Receives IDE Approval for Trial
October 1, 2009 – Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. (FSS) said this week it received conditional investigational device exemption (IDE) approval from the FDA for its...
Read More October 1, 2009
Invatec Launches the Maris Plus Self-Expanding Peripheral Stent
September 30, 2009 – Invatec this week at the European CIRSE 2009 conference launched its latest self-expanding peripheral stent system, Maris Plus, which has a...
Read More September 30, 2009
First Patient Enrolled in Multicenter Clinical Trial of SUPERA PERipheral Stent
August 31, 2009 – IDEV Technologies Inc. announced last week the first patient was enrolled in the company's FDA-approved multicenter clinical trial of its self-expanding...
Read More August 31, 2009
Cook’s Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent Gains CE Mark
August 11, 2009 – Physicians in the United Kingdom yesterday completed patient implants using the first CE mark approved drug-eluting stent designed specifically to treat...
Read More August 11, 2009
FDA Clears Large Diameter GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin Bioactive Surface
July 22, 2009 – W. L. Gore & Associates today said it received FDA approval to market its GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis for device diameters 9-13 mm for the treatment of...
Read More July 22, 2009
Cook Completes Patient Enrollment in REFORM Clinical Trial
June 11, 2009 - Cook Medical announced today the completion of patient enrollment in its REFORM clinical trial, designed to evaluate Cook’s advanced Formula Balloon...
Read More June 12, 2009
Minimally Invasive Stent Treatment Aids Chronic Venous Insufficiency
June 2, 2009 – During their report Friday at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Seshadri Raju, M.D., FACS, and other researchers from the...
Read More June 2, 2009
New Study Shows Cook Zilver PTX Effectively Treats Blockages in Critical Thigh Artery
May 8, 2009 - Preliminary data presented yesterday at the 32nd annual SCAI Scientific Sessions show that 82 percent of patients treated with Cook Medical’s Zilver PTX...
Read More May 8, 2009
U.S. Study of Abbott’s Absolute Pro Peripheral Stent System for Iliac Artery Disease Begins
April 2, 2009 — Abbott yesterday announced the initiation of the MOBILITY clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of the Absolute Pro Peripheral Self-Expanding...
Read More April 2, 2009
IDEV Technologies Receives FDA Nod for Clinical Trial of SUPERA Peripheral Stent
March 19, 2009 - The FDA has approved an investigational device exemption (IDE) for a multicenter clinical trial of IDEV Technologies Inc.’s SUPERA stent, a novel stent...
Read More March 19, 2009
Flexible Stenting Solutions Files IDE With FDA for FlexStent Femoropopliteal Self-Expanding Stent
March 18, 2009 - Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. (FSS) this week submitted an investigational device exemption (IDE) application to the FDA for its FlexStent...
Read More March 18, 2009
Bard Receives FDA Approval for the LifeStent Peripheral Stent
February 19, 2009 - C. R. Bard Inc. this week said it received pre-market approval (PMA) from the FDA to market the LifeStent FlexStar and FlexStar XL Vascular Stent...
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SurModics, Nexeon MedSystems Collaborate to Develop Renal Artery Stent
January 28, 2009 - SurModics Inc. and Nexeon MedSystems Inc. this week signed a licensing agreement to collaborate on development of a novel stent system for the treatment...
Read More January 28, 2009
Flexible Stenting Solutions Receives CE Mark for Self-Expanding Femoropopliteal Stent
January 22, 2009 - Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. said this week it received CE Mark for its FlexStent Femoropopliteal Self Expanding Stent System. Stent sizes...
Read More January 22, 2009
Medtronic Announces Clinical Trial for Peripheral Stent
January 5, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. today announced the first enrollment in the company’s FDA-approved clinical trial of its self-expanding (SE) Complete SE stent for the...
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Bard Receives FDA Clearance For E-Luminexx Vascular Stent
December 22, 2008 - C. R. Bard Inc. recently received FDA clearance to market the E-Luminexx Vascular Stent - a flexible, self-expanding nitinol stent. The E-Luminexx is...
Read More December 22, 2008
Bard Receives FDA Approval for Flair Endovascular Stent Graft
October 30, 2008 - C. R. Bard Inc. today received approval from the FDA to market the Flair Endovascular Stent Graft with an optimized delivery system. The device is...
Read More October 30, 2008
Cook Completes Enrollment in First International Trial for Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent
September 11, 2008 -Cook Medical has completed enrollment in the first international clinical trial of a first-of-its-kind drug-eluting stent designed to treat arterial...
Read More September 11, 2008
Flexible Stenting Solutions Completes First Human Study of New Peripheral Arterial Stent
August 11, 2008 - Flexible Stenting Solutions Inc. said today a physician at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand successfully implanted several of its third generation...
Read More August 11, 2008
Datascope Acquires the Sorin Group's Peripheral Vascular Stent Line
June 16, 2008 - Datascope Corp. said it has exercised its option to acquire the Peripheral Vascular Stent business of the Sorin Group of Milan. The acquisition follows...
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Sorin Sells Peripheral Stent Business to Datascope
June 12, 2008 - Sorin Group closed the sale of its peripheral stent business to Datascope Corp., divesting its noncore assets in order to better focus on its strategic...
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Trial Transplants Stem Cells to Prevent Leg Amputations
February 7, 2008 - A Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher has launched the first U.S. trial in which a purified form of subjects' own adult stem...
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Edwards Lifesciences to Sell LifeStent for $140 Million
December 7, 2007 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. today has entered into a definitive agreement to sell certain assets related to the Edwards LifeStent peripheral vascular...
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PAD Diagnosis Driving Peripheral Stents In Europe
November 14, 2007 - The European peripheral stents market is in the developmental phase, both in terms of revenue and technology due to improved diagnosis of peripheral...
Read More November 14, 2007
First Study on DES for PAD Launched
October 17, 2007 — The first trial to test whether medicated, drug-eluting (dispensing), stents can benefit patients who suffer from peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is...
Read More October 17, 2007
New Treatment for PAD Implanted
September 7, 2007 - Gary Ansel, M.D., Riverside Methodist Hospital, successfully implanted the GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin Bioactive Surface, a stent graft...
Read More September 10, 2007
New Interventional Devices Launched in Europe
May 21, 2007 — OrbusNeich announced today it has received CE Mark approval for three interventional cardiology products: the Blazer cobalt chromium stent, the Sapphire...
Read More May 21, 2007
At Nine Months, SFA Stent Trial Shows Promise for PAD Patients
Feb. 1, 2007 — Cook Medical released nine-month data this week for its PTX Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent (DES) trial, which to date demonstrate no stent fractures. The major...
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Abbott Vascular Takes Lead in PV Stent Market
Jan. 29, 2007 — Abbott Vascular surpassed Cordis for the first time in December 2006 as the market leader in peripheral stents in the U.S., according to Millennium...
Read More January 29, 2007
Datascope to Distribute Sorin Stents
In a new, five-year agreement signed last week, Datascope’s InterVascular Division will become the distributor of Sorin Group’s peripheral vascular stent products...
Read More December 19, 2006