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Late blood clots tarnish drug-coated stents.(Brief article)
Uncommon complication raises questions about who really needs a drug-coated stent and how long to continue drug therapy after getting one.
Medicine is both science and art. It's also a balancing act, teetering between the benefits of therapies for treating and preventing illness and their hazards. When it comes to new drugs, devices, and operations, healing powers are usually seen first, with harms trickling in over time. That's been the case for drug-coated stents. They were hailed as a huge innovation when introduced in 2003 and almost universally adopted for holding open cleared coronary arteries. Now, with more than four million drug-coated stents implanted ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) May 4, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: John Fauber May 4--Drug-coated stents, the coil-like metal devices...showing a clear benefit with drug-coated stents in an emergency setting...Several trials have showed that drug-coated stents can dramatically lower the...
- Anti-clotting drug advised with coated stents.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) December 9, 2006 700+ words
...Administration are urging patients with drug-coated stents implanted in their arteries...studies on the tendency of drug-coated stents to cause blood clots in arteries...increasing number of studies show drug-coated stents contribute to a small risk...
- Drug-coated stents can raise risk of clots.
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) September 14, 2006 700+ words
...Brown say one way to cope with drug-eluting stents is to extend...therapy -- aspirin and the drug Plavix. Even though all heart...from Plavix. Patients with drug-coated stents may have to remain on the drugs longer. "The decline in...
- Study says drug-coated stents do not reduce risks any more than uncoated ones.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 14, 2004 700+ words
...Business News Aug. 14--Drug-coated stents don't cut the risk of death...might close the artery again. Drug-coated stents are widely replacing "bare...the long-term effects of drug-coated stents are needed, and raise concerns...
- Stents with a difference: drug-coated stents are potent weapons in the war on...
- Magazine article from: Healthy Years June 1, 2006 700+ words
...candidate to receive a drug-eluting stent." Although...people who receive drug-eluting stents sometimes...fevers and even death. "Drugs on both of the coated stents now in use are relatively...it is not due to the drug-coated stent, but...
- Drug-coated stents may improve treatment of coronary artery disease.
- Newspaper article from: Biomedical Materials May 1, 2001 700+ words
Drug-coated stents may improve significantly the outcomes...involving pigs, demonstrated that drug-coated stents lead to a 43% reduction in neointimal...procedures to reopen the artery. Drug-coated stents are the next step in angioplasty...
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- Newspaper article from: HealthFacts Napoli, Maryann December 1, 2007 700+ words
...people who had drug-coated stents implanted during...among those given drug-coated stents did not show...showed that drug-coated stents are no more risky...successfully with drug therapy. It...cholesterol-lowering drugs. After four...
- EXPENSIVE INNOVATION; NEW DRUG-COATED STENTS COME WITH A HIGH COST TO...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) March 27, 2003 700+ words
...in already and asking for drug-coated stents." Caputo and his partners...percent of patients who received drug-coated stents experienced renarrowing of...approval next month to sell the drug-coated stents. While they might be much...
