In a move that many hope will increase the dismally low numbers of patients undergoing primary angioplasty in India, lawmakers have declared that coronary stents are “essential medicines.” Prices for ...

Heart attack patients who get an emergency angioplasty to open a blocked artery also should routinely have a stent inserted to keep the blood vessel from clogging again, a large study concludes.

Angioplasty, a surgical procedure that opens blocked arteries, often involves placing a metal tube to hold arterial walls open and prevent them from collapsing once the arterial block is surgically ...

Mar. 31 -- SUNDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- In heart attack patients who had angioplasty, the anticoagulant drugs abciximab and tirofiban produced similar outcomes for certain cardiac measures ...

Early this year, doctors told 65-year-old Ron Rogan that he needed a metal stent to prop open an artery that was causing shortness of breath. Before the procedure, they asked him to join a ...

The absence of coach Luis Zubeldía from leading Fluminense for about 15 days has raised questions about the procedure he ...

MIAMI, FLA.—In treating blockages of the popliteal artery, a nitinol stent performs better than standard angioplasty alone with minimal clinical adverse events, according to a multicenter study.

FDA is reviewing AXIOS stent delivery issues after Boston Scientific reported injuries and deaths, urging facilities to stop use and remove affected devices.

Stents are now used in approximately 80% of all percutaneous coronary interventions. [1,2] Although stents were initially used primarily to reduce restenosis after balloon angioplasty in large vessels ...

Data on the use of stents and stent grafts in the treatment of vascular-access-related stenoses are conflicting. In a retrospective review, Vesely et al. evaluated the outcomes of 51 hemodialysis ...

Elixir Medical's DynamX Bioadaptor restores natural artery function, reducing the risk of future cardiac events.