Noncontact stent crimping equipment introduced by Netherlands-based Fortimedix is designed to process coated stents without leaving tool marks or otherwise damaging the coatings. To eliminate what it ...

Plasma arc welding system A welding process for catheters begins when an operator lays a wire on the platform and slides the wire into tooling that holds it in place during welding. The operator ...

In his guest blog, biomedical engineer Jeremy Goldman explains why traditional stents need an upgrade and how zinc alloys may be part of the solution. I became interested in developing biodegradable ...

Over the past decade, the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has revolutionized the field of interventional cardiology. To massively decrease stent restenosis, the DES-type of stent is coated ...

AZoM speaks with Dr. Jean-Christophe Leroux, Professor of Drug Formulation and Delivery at ETH Zürich. Jean-Christophe and his team have developed a new 3D printed airway stent that will allow for the ...

Coronary stents, those tiny mesh tubes that prop open blocked blood vessels, have helped millions of people avoid invasive and complicated bypass surgery. But stents cease to be needed after the blood ...