Acute ischemic stroke caused by large-vessel occlusion demands rapid restoration of cerebral blood flow, and stent retrievers ...

Vascular implants, including stents, are widely used to reopen blocked or narrowed vessels and restore blood flow. Conventional stents are often constructed from metals or thermally activated polymers ...

FAYETTEVILLE, GA, UNITED STATES, November 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Minimally invasive medical implants require materials that can be delivered in compact form ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Memory Medical Inc., innovator of shape memory polymer for endovascular applications, today announced that its proprietary platform has been used to treat its ...

Research Center for Macromolecules and Biomaterials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan Division of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, ...

Stents restore blood flow by keeping arteries open with a metal scaffold tube. Dr. Wiley emphasized multiple stents over time are common and not alarming. Stents rarely impact lifestyle; risk ...

A recent study in Nature Communications presents a new class of shape memory polymer (SMP) surfaces embedded with nanotips. These surfaces feature tunable nanoscale roughness, enabling adjustable dry ...

Last month, the CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System from Miami, FL-based InspireMD became the first FDA-approved mesh-covered carotid stent for stroke prevention. The pivotal trial for PMA approval ...

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

More than a thousand years ago, East Asians discovered how a newfangled product called paper could be folded into pleasing shapes, and the art of origami was born. Today, University of Minnesota ...