At 3 years, Agent still outshined uncoated balloons. Registry data show rapid uptake of the DCB in the year after its FDA approval.

Precision angioplasty also improves the accuracy of choosing the right stent size and length. Because the vessel measurements ...

With cardiovascular diseases becoming increasingly common among the young and the old, blockages in the heart is a frequent problem cardiologists have to face. To treat blockages angioplasty and stent ...

Complications and three-year survival rates are similar for heart patients treated with drug-coated stents and those treated with bypass surgery, a new study shows. But experts tell WebMD it's still ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Throughout the history of cardiology, several milestones ...

Tiny clogged arteries in the heart that have long bedeviled cardiologists' attempts at repair can now be kept flowing smoothly with new drug-coated stents that have already revolutionized treatment of ...

As compared with thrombolytic therapy, primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in acute myocardial infarction reduces the rates of death, reinfarction, and stroke, but recurrent ...

VS3 Medical, Inc. announced it has commenced enrollment in an international first-in-human (FIH) study evaluating the VS3 Med ...