If your arteries are clogged and you're facing an angioplasty, your doctor may offer you an unusual choice: wrist or groin? Though the number of doctors who perform wrist angioplasty remains small in ...

DALLAS -- It's not as routine as having your teeth cleaned, but a growing number of people are going to hospitals to have their heart arteries unclogged and going home the same day. New research ...

Angioplasty is a medical procedure that opens up a blocked or narrowed artery around the heart. Doctors also refer to angioplasty as percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI. During angioplasty, a ...

One-year success rates from angioplasty procedures to open clogged arteries in the legs were significantly higher among patients whose procedures were guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) ...

Boston, MA - A paclitaxel-coated balloon may end up filling a role never successfully filled by drug-eluting stents (DES): angioplasty of the leg. According to Dr Gunnar Tepe ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Non-surgical treatment to unblock clogged arteries in legs and feet can save them from being amputated, even though those blood vessels are small and tricky to work in, ...

A new procedure approved for use jointly at Auburn Regional Medical Center and Federal Way's St. Francis Hospital means less travel and unfamiliar surroundings for patients. The state Department of ...

Aortic coarctation is a congenital narrowing of part of the aorta, most commonly the aortic arch, usually close to the origin of the left subclavian artery. This results in high blood pressure in the ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Patients with severe coronary artery disease live longer if they receive coronary artery bypass surgery as their initial treatment instead of artery-opening angioplasty or heart ...