POSTS TAGGED AS stents

Nanotube Coating for Implantable Metal

Droplets Beading on Superomniphobic Surface
With implantable devices like stents and rods, there is a risk that platelets will stick to [MORE]

Personalized Medical Devices—3-D Printed Biodegradable Stents

3D Printing Customized Stents
Today’s arterial stents are made from either metal or plastic. They come in different sizes, and the [MORE]

Polyurethane Coated Tracheal Stent

Fraunhofer Stent
The windpipe isn’t s simple tube; it contains cells that purify inhaled air.  So, it is important [MORE]

Device Trends

Tricorder
In a survey earlier this year, experts in medical devices identified their best bets for breakthroughs—e.g. orthopedic devices with embedded [MORE]

Matching Trial Patients to Typical Sufferers

Here’s a quandary: Medicare pays for arterial stenting when patients have stroke symptoms, but not all patients who receive [MORE]

Biodegradable Stents

Chemical & Engineering News recently reported that chemists at UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University have developed easy-to-make [MORE]

Designing Drug-Eluting Stents

Stent
There are currently only four drug-eluting stents under FDA approval, and their effectiveness or ineffectiveness have been called into question.  [MORE]