(Nanowerk News) A nanomatrix for stent coating designed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) mimics natural endothelium, the substance that lines blood vessels, and promises the potential ...

Suncica "Sunny" Canic was good at math in school, so that's what she pursued as a career. But she always liked medicine, too. When she moved to Houston, Texas, and met some cardiologists at a party, ...

Figure 1. Colorized scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a biodegradable drug-eluting coating on a coronary stent. Catheter-based interventions have revolutionized the practice of ...

Perhaps the biggest and most contentious flurry of activity centers on the actual mechanics of drug-delivery and the need for a polymer coating. Polymers have been hailed by some as essential to ...

Over the past decade, the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has revolutionized the field of interventional cardiology. To massively decrease stent restenosis, the DES-type of stent is coated ...

New York, NY - There has been a dip in the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) in some US hospitals, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal today [1]. Shares of stent manufacturers Johnson & ...

The continued success of drug-eluting stents relies heavily on little-known technologies. Parylene, for example, could have far-reaching applications. Lonny Wolgemuth Drug-eluting stents, although ...

A researcher at AIST, in collaboration with the Japan Medical Startup Incubation Program (JMPR) and N.B. Medical Corporation, has developed a novel anti-thrombogenic coating for stents used in the ...

Around half a million stents are implanted in Germany every year to treat narrowing of the blood vessels, a consequence of atherosclerosis. However, conventional models made of metal or polymers ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Millions of medical procedures every year rely on stents—small mesh-like tubes—to keep body channels open when diseases threaten to close them off. These stents help restore blood ...