Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

Opening a blocked artery with balloons and stents can be lifesaving but as Gujarat deaths show, cases of misuse are also ...

This patient’s story is part of a broader movement in heart care towards personalized treatments. The combination of BRS and ...

Compared with a contemporary zotarolimus drug-eluting stent, a coronary bioadaptor system is noninferior among patients with CAD receiving PCI.

as do lesions in other bifurcations in the coronary tree. Palmerini et al. evaluated the impact of lesion location and the role of one versus two stents for the treatment of distal left main ...

The process involves combining coronary angioplasty with stenting, which is the insertion of a permanent wire-meshed tube that is either drug eluting (DES) or composed of bare metal (BMS).

For patients with severely calcified coronary lesions ... one-year patient outcomes compared to routine balloon angioplasty prior to stenting," study chair Gregg W. Stone, M.D., from the Icahn ...

The benefits of conventional stenting are primarily conferred within weeks of angioplasty ... assessed the feasibility of bioabsorbable coronary stents made from a magnesium alloy—demonstrated ...

Patients with coronary artery disease—plaque ... in the atherectomy group compared with the balloon angioplasty group. The minimal stent area at the site of maximal calcification was 7.67 ...

Patients with coronary artery disease-;plaque buildup ... in the atherectomy group compared with the balloon angioplasty group. The minimal stent area at the site of maximal calcification was ...