Palmz-Schatz Arterial Stent
date: label: date made
content: about 1992
name: label: maker
content: Cordis Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Palmz-Schatz arterial stent—an expandable mesh tube made of stainless steel—was designed by two cardiologists, Richard Schatz and Julio Palmaz, working at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 1994 the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved its use in cases when balloon angioplasty had failed.
label: Description
content: Ref: Julio A. Palmaz, "Expandable Extraluminal Graft and Method and Apparatus for Implanting an Expandable Intraluminal Graft," U.S. Patent 5,102,417 (April 7, 1992).
label: Description
content: Christina Tan and Richard A. Schatz, “The History of Coronary Stenting,” in Matthew J. Price, ed., Coronary and Endovascular Stents (Elsevier, 2016), pp. 271-280.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard A. Schatz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0157.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0157
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0157.01
label: patent number
content: 5,102,417
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stent, coronary
label: Object Name
content: stent, coronary
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x .2 cm; 25/32 in x 3/32 in