Patients at Cleveland Hosptial May Have Received Unnecessary Heart Stents
A surgeon working at a Cleveland-area hospital was implanting patients with coronary stents they didn’t need for at least two years. According to a Cleveland Plain Dealer report, St. John Medical Center in Westlake, Ohio, has informed more than 23 patients that their cardiac surgeon likely implanted them with a coronary artery … [Read more...]
Heart Stents No Better than Drugs
Heart Stents No Better than Drugs. An international team of researchers just reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that while using drugs alone may take longer than angioplasty or stent surgery to help restore blood flow in patients with clogged arteries, patients fare just as well in the long term. PCI, or … [Read more...]
Efficacy of heart stents called into question
Doctors overusing heart stents. A seven-year US study has called into question whether doctors are overusing heart stents, the blockbuster tiny wire mesh tubes used to prop open narrowing coronary arteries. The results of the study, called Courage, added more uncertainty to a stent market that recently has been thrown … [Read more...]
Heart Stents No Better Than Treating Stable Heart Patients With Medication
Heart Stents No Better Than Treating Stable Heart Patients. The study of more than 2,000 patients found that those who underwent the expensive procedure, known as angioplasty, in non-emergency situations were no less likely to suffer a heart attack or die than those who only took aspirin and other medicines to thin their blood and … [Read more...]
FDA Explores Safety of Heart Stents
Drug-Releasing Heart Stents Increase The Risk Of Deadly Blood Clots. New drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open appear to increase the risk for potentially life-threatening blood clots more than older bare-metal versions, government investigators told an expert panel assessing the safety of the devices … [Read more...]
Heart Stents Reconsidered by Medical Community
More Questions Arise Regarding The Long Term Safety Of Heart Stents. For the better part of the last decade, heart stents have been celebrated as one of the most important developments in the medical field, and, with sales of heart stents reaching $6 billion annually, it’s also been one of the fastest-growing segments of the … [Read more...]
