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• New computer model could lead to safer, individualized stents

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 8 (ANI): Stents, normally used to halt tissue growth in arteries, are known to have life threatening side effects such as increasing the likelihood of blood clots and heart attacks. Now, researchers have developed a computer model that explains why those drugs released from stents accumulate in the ...
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• Novel computer model to pave way for safer stents

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed new computer models to predict physiologically realistic drug delivery patterns from stents in branched arterial vessels. Scientists including Elazer R. Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health ...
  6 days ago

• Drug variations in drug-eluting stents

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Options for drug-eluting stent (DES) manufacturers to differentiate their products include stent material, stent shape, drug-deposition methods and others, but most importantly the drug itself.  The first drug employed in drug-eluting stents was sirolimus in J&Js CYPHER stent, followed by Boston Scientific with ...
  6 days ago

• Adult Stem Cells Treating Heart Attack Patients

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that treat of heart attack patients with adult stem cells can result in repair of heart tissue damage and fewer complications: The trial, lead by Joshua M. Hare, M.D., director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University ...
  1 week ago

• Should we put stents in renal (kidney) arteries?

  
  Healthy Hearts with Heartstrong — Authority: 498
  People who have narrowings (plaque) in kidney blood vessels sometimes are referred for angioplasty and stenting to open up the blood vessels and improve blood flow to the kidneys. The kidneys help regulate blood pressure and when the kidney arteries get narrowed people can develop high blood pressure and kidney ...
  1 week ago

• Technologies at medtech startups, November 2009

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Below are select technologies under development at recently identified medtechs startups: Scaffold for regeneration of functional bone tissues. Autologous, adipose-derived stem cells for treatment of traumatic brain injury and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Device company developing technologies to improve ...
  1 week ago

• New method may treat arterial disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) A discovery that grew out of a collaboration between engineers and doctors shows promise in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a common circulatory problem in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs.The condition is considered a red flag for vascular disease, heart ...
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• New material may help combat arterial disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): A group of researchers from University of California, Los Angeles has developed a novel material that can help fight peripheral arterial disease also known as hardening of arteries.The condition is considered a red flag for vascular disease, heart attack and stroke, and its progression can ...
  1 week ago

• BioAbsorbable Stents – Clinical Trial Results from Abbott on Treating Coronary Artery Disease

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 547
  We all know about biodegradable, well here’s the stent of the future design, it grown on you, literally, or I should be correct here and say it really dissolves, and there might be a bit of truth to both sides here.  Interventional Cardiologists and Radiologists are the ones you really want to know today if you ...
  1 week ago

• Advances in bioabsorbable stent materials

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Advances at Tel Aviv University in development of bioabsorbable materials for use in coronary stents are discussed: http://www.lifesciencesworld.com/news/view/125802 The ability to control both drug-elution rate and the time to bioabsorption by the body make these developments noteworthy for their potential to ...
  2 weeks ago

• A coating for life

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Prof. Meital Zilberman of Tel Aviv University has developed a new patent-pending dissolvable fiber platform that can be used to coat both metal stents, which are currently available, and biodegradable stents now in development.
  2 weeks ago

• Trends in coronary stent prices (hint: not all down)

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  In a relatively classic scenario, established technologies have seen a loss of their once-premium pricing while emerging technologies are able to command an increasing premium as reward for their sophistication. The worldwide coronary stent market is following the predicted course.  Bare metal stents have been on ...
  2 weeks ago

• $5.3M for Corindus

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  medical devices , Life Sciences , VC Ryan McBride wrote: Natick, MA-based Corindus has corralled $5.3 million of a proposed $10 million round of equity financing, according to an SEC filing . The firm is developing a robotic system that helps surgeons control the position of guidewires in veins in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your own stem cells can treat cardiac disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 18 (IANS) Transplanting a potent form of adult stem cells into the heart muscle of subjects with severe angina lessens pain and improves walking ability.These findings are the result of the largest national stem cell study for heart disease. The transplant subjects also experienced fewer deaths than ...
  3 weeks ago

• Coronary artery disease treatment map

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  As an exercise, I found it worthwhile to map out the various options available or under development for the treatment of coronary artery disease. We assess the emphasis of current, near-term and future possible options for treatment in the color-coded scheme: Bold, black:  Current, dominant treatment options ...
  4 weeks ago

• DES and other coronary artery disease treatment tech trends

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  A steady rate of technology development in coronary stents, producing an equally steady stream of new stent market introductions, is focused on expanding aggregate stent caseload (through penetration of what would otherwise be coronary artery bypass caseload) or shifting the balance even further toward concentration ...
  4 weeks ago

• Medtech: Where is the opportunity?

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  The areas of greatest opportunity in medtech are those which have already demonstrated they have plenty of upside, even if a robust number of competitors have already begun targeting them. Areas of the strongest market growth in medical technologies that we are seeing have emerged out of the major segments we have ...
  4 weeks ago

• Coronary artery disease: stents, bypass — and plenty of other options

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Because of the invasive nature of cardiac surgery, medical therapy will always be the preferred treatment protocol favored by many clinicians. To that end, device and pharmaceutical manufacturers continue to explore methods of treating atherosclerosis that will render surgery unnecessary. For instance, researchers ...
  4 weeks ago

• Coronary stent market opportunity

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Stenting is not ideal for all patients with coronary heart disease, such as those with left main or three (or more) vessel disease. However, the vast majority of cardiovascular disease patients can benefit from the benefits of PCI, not the least of which include a shorter recovery period and less trauma to the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Technologies at medical technology startups

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 126
  Medical technology startup companies that we identified during the month of October 2009 are developing the following specific technologies: Diagnostic imaging in urology and oncology. Endoscopic tissue management technology. Esophageal monitoring device to replace peripheral artery catheter. Products for ...
  5 weeks ago

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