Medtronic Begins Testing a "Drug-Filled Stent"

Today Medtronic announced the first study of a novel stent concept, the "drug-filled stent" or DFS. It is both a drug-eluting stent AND a bare metal stent, utilizing a stent construction that Medtronic currently uses in its Resolute Integrity and Onyx stents. The stent is fashioned from a single strand of metal that can have several "inner cores." In the DFS, the drug is contained in a reservoir, inside the stent, and slowly eluted through small holes in the metal outer core.
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