Abbott earned FDA approval for its dissolving stent designed to unclog arteries below the knee. This marks the first time the FDA has approved a stent or drug-coated balloon to help arteries stay open below the knee.
A doctor argues that bioresorbable stents value is questionable now despite the marketing and the hype.
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About half of all strokes could be caused by a narrowing of the carotid artery – the pipeline that ushers blood flow through the neck and to the brain. The Bay Area’s Silk Road Medical may have found a less-invasive way to increase the blood flow to the brain, using traditional stenting concepts but kicking ’em up a notch. […]
Fitting corrective medical devices to a growing child is highly complex — particularly when they’ve got congenital cardiovascular conditions. Boston startup 480 Biomedical is developing a self-expanding scaffold that can be resorbed by the body to treat such disorders in children. The company just received $1 million in Phase II funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to continue […]