Cook Medical Device to Prevent Leg Amputations Worked

A drug-coated stent from Cook Medical, the maker of devices for minimally invasive medical procedures, was more effective than standard therapy for patients with blockages in an upper-leg artery, a study found.

With the Cook stent, patients’ arteries reclogged in 17 percent of patients after one year compared with 33 percent of those who underwent treatment with an artery-clearing procedure known as angioplasty and an older type of stent, according to the one-year study presented today at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in Washington, D.C.