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

Analysis suggests stents aren't as beneficial as previously thought. Feb. 28, 2012— -- Inserting stents to open a blocked artery is a common way to treat coronary artery disease. But increasing ...

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect the source of 12-month data for the PRO-Kinetic device. It comes from the previous ENERGY Registry study, and not from the BIOHELIX-1 study. Biotronik ...

A new generation of coronary artery stent that combines a biodegradable component with an ultrathin scaffold showed promising results compared with the current gold standard, in a large population of ...

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 ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --For patients with stable angina, coronary artery stents may have more of a placebo effect than previously thought, researchers in England report in a new study. Researchers from the ...

The FDA approved a new emergency stent device to treat perforations in the blood vessels of the heart, the agency’s first new treatment option in the indication in 17 years. Deep tears in coronary ...

A 42 years old male patient was admitted with resuscitated sudden cardiac death. Electrocardiogram revealed ST segment elevation in leads II, III, and aVF. After crossing the lesion with a floppy ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent form of heart disease, affecting approximately 18 million adults in the ...

Interventional cardiology made its debut 27 years ago, when Andreas Grüntzig performed the first percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in a human. Since then, rapid expansion of our knowledge ...