With the FDA's approval of Medtronic's Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve and Ensemble Delivery System (see link), another step has been made toward eliminating traditional surgery — at least that's the idea. The ability to implant a valve via a percutaneous procedure advances the art of less invasive intervention in ways akin to laparoscopic surgery, albeit at [...]
A steady rate of technology development in coronary stents, producing an equally steady stream of new stent market introductions, is focused on expanding aggregate stent caseload (through penetration of what would otherwise be coronary artery bypass caseload) or shifting the balance even further toward concentration of stents sales to the drug-eluting stent (DES) variety. While [...]
Dr. Julio Palmaz, who with Dr. Richard Schatz patented the balloon-expandable stent, believes that, while the market for stents has evolved from bare metal stents to drug-eluting stents (DES), the inevitable limitation of DES will be that they lead to inflammatory response and that their real drawback is that they create a barrier between tissue [...]
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