A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other ...

A drug-eluting stent, or DES, is a small, metal mesh tube placed in a blocked coronary artery. The metal is coated in medicine and helps reopen your artery and keep it open. ‌ Stents are used to treat ...

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 designed ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 68 and in good shape; I work out daily. I had a few episodes of angina two to three years ago and started going to a cardiologist as a result. I have had quite a few tests done, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There has been a major breakthrough on bypass surgeries and stents. A new study calls into question the medical care provided to tens of thousands of heart disease patients ...

Many people who receive one stent will need additional stents, but as the number of devices in the heart increases, so do the risks of serious complications. If a coronary artery has become narrowed, ...

The coronary artery supplies blood to the heart. If calcium builds up in the coronary artery, it can lead to coronary artery disease and increase a person’s risk of a heart attack. Calcium is the most ...

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Every year, 60,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with heart failure, and many are treated with stents. In a large new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, my colleagues and I ...

A new drug-eluting balloon can perform just as well as the standard treatment for patients with coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) undergoing repeated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Matthew Ryan receives funding from the National Institute for Health Research (UK), British Heart Foundation and National Institute for Health (USA). Every year, 60,000 people in the UK are diagnosed ...