The stent/scaffold is designed to keep arteries ... The hospital's fellowship-trained vascular surgeons, Dr. Atul Rao and ...

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 ...

Doctors at hospitals or surgery centers routinely place unnecessary coronary stents in Medicare patients with stable heart disease, according to a new report. More than one in five coronary stents ...

After cardiac surgery when he was just 5 months old, he needed another procedure to place a stent to improve blood flow through the heart. "It was pretty hard, because I just kept thinking ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A variety of stent designs have tried and failed to reduce the number of stent-related adverse events over time, but now a new device with a unique design has shown some initial ...

Urinary stents and catheters currently need to be replaced every two to six months due to blockages caused by bacterial biofilms and encrustations. Researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Bern ...