These types are called coronary stents. Usually made of metal mesh, they’re put into arteries after a procedure to expand the artery called a percutaneous coronary intervention or, its more ...

Angioplasty and stent placement are common procedures to open arteries in the heart that are clogged. These procedures are formally known as coronary angioplasty or percutaneous coronary ...

Stent designed for kids shows preliminary success 02:00. You wouldn't know it by looking at him, but 4-year-old Jake Schumacher was born with serious heart defects.

A stent is a tube-shaped device that can be inserted into a narrowed passageway or vessel to hold it open. A stent therefore acts as a scaffold that holds bodily tubes open.

More than one in five coronary stents doctors placed in Medicare patients from 2019 through 2022 weren't needed; and they cost the federal health program and beneficiaries about $2.4 billion ...

Drug-eluting stents reduce the occurrence of in-stent restenosis and the need for subsequent target vessel revascularization when compared with bare-metal stents. However, drug-eluting stents may ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Each year, nearly a million Americans get a stent - a tiny mesh tube that props open a clogged artery. If you have heart disease, your doctor may recommend one. But whether ...

Restenosis generally occurs within 3 to 6 months after your stent is placed, but it may occur even years later. People who have diabetes may have fewer symptoms, unusual symptoms, or no symptoms ...

The FDA recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a series of open heart ...

Fondée en 2018 à Amiens, la société Open Stent Solution fabrique un implant pour remplacer la valve mitrale, sans en passer par la chirurgie à cœur ouvert. La start-up en a terminé avec la ...

L’ancien premier ministre Jean Chrétien a subi une opération au cœur mardi matin à l’Institut de cardiologie de l’Université d’Ottawa où les médecins ont procédé à la pose d ...