Dr. George Georgiou of the Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus, discusses the challenges associated with drug eluting stents, including late catch-up phenomenon and late thrombosis.
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Yock talks about the costs versus the charges of medical stents. A cynical approach is that the actual metal stents themselves cost 80-90 cents to make and their charge is about $1200. However, there is an enormous amount of R&D effort. 
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Dr. Zambahari of the Institut Jantung Nagara National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, describes how the COMBO Dual Therapy Stent addresses the problem of late stent thrombosis associated with current monotherapy drug eluting stents.
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Advancing the clinical practice of interventional cardiovascular medicine, India Medtronic today announces the availability of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Resolute Integrity™ Drug-Eluting Stent (DES) for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) in India.
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B Braun has been granted European CE Mark approval for its new Coroflex ISAR stent, for the treatment of stenoses in coronary arteries.
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Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the PROMUS Element™ Plus Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System, the Company's next-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) technology. The PROMUS Element Stent, designed to provide physicians improved DES performance in treating patients with coronary artery disease, is built on an innovative platinum chromium (PtCr) platform with the market-leading everolimus drug. The Company plans to begin marketing the product in the U.S. immediately.
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Percutaneous coronary intervention with bare metal stents followed by a course of oral prednisone at immunosuppressive strength produces results comparable to that obtained with drug-eluting stents, an Italian Team has shown.
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According to the company the trial will examine the “dissolving” heart device compared to Abbott’s drug-eluting stents in patients with coronary artery disease in Japan.
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Using bare metal stents for many low-risk patients could save more than $200 million annually.
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