Also called a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the procedure is often performed after an episode of chest pain or a heart attack and ...

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

Balloon angioplasty with drug‐coated balloons (DCBs) is frequently used during percutaneous coronary intervention for in‐stent restenosis. Despite its frequent use, there is a lack of long‐term data ...

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 ...

Transcatheter procedures can be lifesaving. Herein, the coronary stenting procedure applied to a 3-month-old patient with post-surgical coronary stenosis is presented. Herein, we present the ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, GA, UNITED STATES, November 20, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- The global angioplasty balloons market size was valued at $2.6 billion in 2023, and is projected to reach $3.6 billion by 2033, ...

Clinton, MD – MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center has once again earned national acclaim for its coronary intervention ...

MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severely calcified coronary lesions, routine treatment with orbital atherectomy prior to drug-eluting stent implantation does not yield ...

Stent thrombosis is a rare but potentially life threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It develops when a blood clot blocks blood flow through your stent.

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