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

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

today announced late-breaking data demonstrating significant benefit of the DynamX ® Coronary Bioadaptor System compared to contemporary Resolute Onyx ™ zotarolimus drug-eluting stent (DES ...

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, ...