Data Improves for Heart Stents
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Drug-coated heart stents might not increase the risk of blood clots as much as previously thought, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of cardiologists.
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Last Thursday, the day the Food and Drug Administration launched a two-day advisory panel on the risks of drug-coated stents, doctors across the country found an e-mail on their computers from stent maker Johnson &amp; Johnson, inviting them to join a conference call about stent safety.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to release new testing requirements for drug-coated heart stents in the next few weeks, the regulatory agency's device chief, Daniel Schultz, told the Wall Street Journal.
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Even some heart attack patients would be better off if their doctors avoided using drug-coated stents to open their clogged arteries, an international study found, raising new concerns about the devices.
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Boston Scientific Corp. found a slightly higher risk of blood clotting in patients implanted with its newer drug-coated stents compared with older bare-metal versions, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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The government posted mortality data on Thursday for the nation's thousands of hospitals for heart attacks and heart failure, in an effort to shed light on which hospitals provide the best care.
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Meta-analysis finds J&J's stents are safer than Boston Scientific's stents -- maybe.
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Drug-coated stents that prop open the arteries of about 3 million people in the U.S. don't increase the risk of heart attack or death when used as labeled but may put patients at risk for blood clots, health advisers said Thursday.
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Vioxx . Ritalin. Drug-eluting stents . Those popular drugs and medical devices are on a growing list of therapies used by millions of people that have shown up on the radar of Dr. Steven E. Nissen , a prominent heart specialist.
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The federal government unveiled new cardiac care information last month on a Web site that tracks hospital performance, earning kudos from hospital administrators and health-care researchers but demonstrating how difficult it is for consumers to compare hospital care.
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A Food and Drug Administration panel tomorrow will consider one of the most urgent questions in medicine: what to do about the risk of blood clots caused by drug-coated stents, tiny medical devices implanted in the arteries of millions of people.
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BARCELONA -- Specialists expressed concerns yesterday that drug-coated heart stents -- metal-mesh tubes used to prop open coronary arteries -- might increase the chances of potentially fatal blood clots.
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November 8, 2004 -- Stents, the tiny mesh tubes placed at the site of just-cleared blockages in heart arteries, help reduce the need for more artery-clearing procedures, but have no impact on long-term survival of patients, new research report said
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Patients who get the leading drug-coated stents to prop open coronary arteries rather than bare-metal stents run no higher risk of death, according to a new report by a multinational team of doctors.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Federal advisers yesterday said that drug-coated stents, which have been implanted in millions, offer clear benefits to many patients but present higher clotting risks to others, suggesting they may be overused.
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NEW YORK  - Over the last decade, the use  of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting to treat  elderly heart patients has increased, and outcomes of these  procedures have improved.
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Drug-coated heart stents may not increase the risk of blood clots as much as previously thought, according to research presented Sunday at a meeting of cardiologists.