A new heart stent designed especially for infants has provided hope for the 40,000 U.S. babies born each year with congenital heart defects. A newborn in West Hollywood became the second baby ...
My patients, who had a stent (that expandable mesh tube that widens a blocked artery for blood to flow and stays like that) implanted after a heart attack, always have one question. Do they need to ...
Should I receive stents, or would it be better to have ... Most hospitals take what’s called the “heart team” approach, in which both an interventional cardiologist and a cardiac surgeon ...
The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) has become widespread as a result of their superior revascularization rates compared with those of bare-metal stents (BMS). 1 DES are increasingly being used ...
Venoplasty alone for CAS does not provide a durable solution due to the frequent reinterventions that are required. Bare-metal stent (BMS) placement has been described with variable results. In their ...
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) A novel stent surface treatment technology using laser patterning can revolutionise surgeries for heart diseases, according to a study on Thursday. Traditional metal stents ...