Absorbable Stent

Cardiologists at The University of Kansas Hospital have embarked on a clinical trial to see if a coronary stent that slowly dissolves into a vessel can effectively protect the heart and enhance the free flow of blood.
Conventional stents are tiny, metallic, mesh-like scaffolds that prop open vessels gummed up by plaque, dead cells and clotted blood that can lead to a heart attack or a stroke. More than half a million Americans receive one every year. The new device under study is made of a disappearing, biodegradable polymer that leaves behind no traces of its existence other than an opened and possibly more pliable vessel.
"Unlike metallic stents that stay within the vessels permanently, this stent completely dissolves within about two years after implantation," said Mark Wiley, MD, an interventional cardiologist at The University of Kansas Hospital. "This new stent's ability to vanish over time is as close as science comes to magic."
Being free of a permanent implant allows a vessel the possibility to regain some of its natural flexibility. At the same time, the medication impregnated in the absorbable stent helps prevent re-clogging. Wiley said if the Food and Drug Administration approves the new device, patients will have an option that frees them from having a lifelong implant. He predicts the stent will transform the way heart attacks and severe coronary blockages will be treated within the next few years.
The absorbable stent has already been approved for use in Europe.
The University of Kansas Hospital is one about 100 heart centers in the country, and the only one in the Kansas City area, participating in the study.

[@NicholasWarnertheFirst]

I had THREE of these installed yesterday and walked away from the hospital the same day!?!? Very impressive. Thanks to All at the London Heart Hospital XXXXX

[@memer2.022]

How are you right now. Did you had biodegradable stent.

[@Answering123]

Excellent; but now we have a case of regular HEART STENTS we need any possible way to remove it

[@indianrose1350]

Can this type of stent be installed through a subclavian occlusion?

[@travels129]

That's lot better they should all be asorable

[@jewsjw50]

I had a stent placed in the LAD now the where the stent is placed the artery is blocking back next to it up already to 55% whats the deal and what may have to happen Thanks

[@travels129]

Wat do u mean ? The stent is being blocked wats the next step I had stents LAD 3 weeks ago

[@travels129]

How long u had the stentjames west

[@memer2.022]

Did you have biodegradable stent. How are u right now

[@leenagomasta4370]

Can the stent be seen , in a X-ray ?

[@sinansaidmt]

Nop, It's not Radiopaque. But, Stent's Proximal and Distal Struts has✌️ Radiopaque Markers, that can be recognize it's position and further can be follow post dilation