Cardiac stents have transformed the landscape of cardiovascular medicine, providing a less invasive and highly effective means to treat coronary artery disease. What is a stent? A cardiac stent is a ...

A stent designed specifically for infants and young children with congenital heart disease has demonstrated strong safety and ...

Carotid stent surgery is one of two procedures that can be used to treat carotid artery stenosis. This procedure is considered a less invasive option with a faster recovery time. However, it does have ...

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 ...

PARIS, France—It’s not a stent in a traditional sense, nor a scaffold that completely disappears over time, but a new device—one that “unchains” itself over time—has cleared an early hurdle by proving ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A surgeon completed the world’s first deep venous stent thrombectomies for chronic stent occlusion via a ...

Drug-coated balloons are gaining attention as a stent-free angioplasty option, offering a “leave nothing behind” approach ...

MIAMI BEACH, FL—Venous stenting, an arena in which physicians once had to make do with just a handful of options, is now so crowded with approved, dedicated devices that clinicians may be hard-pressed ...

Both the angiogram and angioplasty are useful tools when diagnosing and treating blockages and other heart issues. Both procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and are minimally invasive. If ...