Cobalt-Chromium Stent With "Cloak" Coating Significantly Reduces Restenosis: Presented at ISET

docguide.com (Jan 25 2009) Cardiology

1. HOLLYWOOD, Fla -- January 25, 2009 -- The combination of a cobalt-chromium stent and a stent-cloaking chemical compound coating (Polyzene-F) continues to generate encouraging results in a "first-in-man" study taking place in Italy, researchers noted at the 21st International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET)....After 12 months, stents in 15 randomly chosen patients were analysed using optical coherence tomography. In that analysis, only 29 of the 19,028 struts were malapposed. Binary angiographic restenosis was recorded in 6.8% of these patients. (Read Full Article)

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