During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

Introduction Is Long-term Single Antiplatelet Clopidogrel Therapy Safe After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation in Patients on Anticoagulants? MATRIX Registry: Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After ...

The patency rate at 6 months was higher for the silicone-coated metallic stent vs double-J stent. A silicone-covered metallic stent maintains patency better than a double-J stent in patients with ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Millions of medical procedures every year rely on stents—small mesh-like tubes—to keep body channels open when diseases threaten to close them off. These stents help restore blood ...

September 2, 2008 (Munich, Germany) — Nearly two years after Swedish investigators shocked the cardiology community with registry data hinting that drug-eluting stents (DES) might increase death rates ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA’s Circulatory System Devices Panel advised that for a stent graft system to treat patients with ...

A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed or ...

TCT 538: Comparison of Limb Outcome between Hemodialysis and Non-hemodialysis Patients following Heparin-bonded Stent Graft Implantation for Femoropopliteal Lesion from LANDMARK registry Receive the ...

SAN DIEGO -- For endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transluminal draining of pancreatic pseudocysts, plastic stents appeared as safe and effective as lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) in a randomized ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A surgeon completed the world’s first deep venous stent thrombectomies for chronic stent occlusion via a ...