During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube ...

Drug-eluting stent placement happens during a procedure called ... Drug-eluting stents have benefits for heart disease. They can help lower plaque buildup in your arteries and increase blood ...

Coronary artery disease, or “hardening of the arteries,” is the cause of most heart disease ... a cardiologist and expert at stent placement who is an associate professor at Weill Cornell ...

infection and even heart damage from a stent placement. It’s not to be undertaken lightly. If your cardiologist doesn’t feel that the shortness of breath you have stems from your blockages ...

Reflow Medical has secured a groundbreaking green light from the FDA for its retrievable stent system, designed to boost blood flow through blockages in the lower limbs while leaving noth | The ...

A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed ...

Using intravascular imaging to guide stent implantation during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in heart disease patients significantly improves survival and reduces adverse cardiovascular ...

All the patients had undergone non-surgical, catheter-guided placement of a heart stent to open up a blocked artery. At the beginning of the trial, all patients got a standard anti-clotting drug ...

For healthy, younger adults with an increased risk of heart attack or stroke ... recovering from acute coronary syndrome and a stent placement, and eliminating aspirin from their treatment ...

Jean Chrétien missed King Charles delivering the speech from the throne Tuesday morning because he is recovering from heart ...

Following stent placement in both arms ... St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn, New York, said he was impressed by the difference in the median MSA. Ali speculated that the major ...