Orlando, Florida— Performing balloon angioplasty following the deployment of a carotid stent reduces the risk of restenosis but also appears to increase the risk of stroke, according to an analysis of ...

Cardiac stents, the tiny tubes of metal mesh used to shore up blood vessels in heart disease patients, may pose a higher risk of triggering catastrophic blood clots than previously thought, according ...

For patients who have soft, lipid-rich carotid plaques that are prone to prolapse during stent implantation, combining proximal embolic protection with newer double-layer stents reduces the risk of ...

Stenosis of the coronary arteries is usually caused by deposition of atherosclerotic plaque. This reduces blood flow to the heart muscle and is usually progressive. Symptoms of coronary artery disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . W.L. Gore and Associates announced it has received FDA approval for a thoracic stent graft with a new delivery ...

A 43 year-old male presented with chest pain with left ventricular failure. ECG shows ST elevation in lateral leads. The first tropinin was 1.0. Patient was started on heart failure therapy, and a ...

Self-expandable metallic stents (SEMS)—tubular metal mesh stents that expand radially upon deployment—were initially introduced in the field of gastroenterology for the relief of malignant biliary ...

In conventional MRI, the stainless-steel stent would produce a large signal void that blurs the image of surrounding tissue. With MRI using IRON, however, the stent appeared as a bright object, ...