Tag: stents
Consider intravascular lithotripsy when treating calcified femoropopliteal arteries
Treating severely calcified arteries by endovascular means is still a challenge, although atherectomy, stents and lithotripsy are all techniques that are employed. Lithotripsy (also...
First data from AVeVA suggest Covera stent “safe and effective” at...
Early data from the prospective multicentre AVeVA study that employed a covered stent (Covera; Bard, now BD) to treat stenoses at the venous anastomosis...
One-year MIMICS-2 results show BioMimics 3D stent results in nearly 90%...
Thomas Zeller (Bad Krozingen, Germany) presented the 12-month results from Veryan Medical’s MIMICS-2, a prospective, single arm, multicentre clinical study to evaluate the safety...
New Vascular Ultrasound Registry launched, will initial focus on carotid artery...
The registry will combine noninvasive, vascular ultrasound testing data with vascular treatment and outcomes data, making it possible to analyse the relationships between diagnosis...
3D printing customised vascular stents could minimise complications
Most people have heard about personalised medicine. How about personalised medical devices? Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering researchers Guillermo Ameer and Cheng Sun have...
