For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have? In research presented Monday at ...

Mar. 31 -- SUNDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) -- In heart attack patients who had angioplasty, the anticoagulant drugs abciximab and tirofiban produced similar outcomes for certain cardiac measures ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Key Takeaways Bypass surgery is better than stents for serious heart disease.A stent is less invasive and usually faster to recover from than bypass ...

NEW YORK, NY — For diabetic patients with blocked coronary arteries, angioplasty performed using a second-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) results in survival similar to surgery, an ...

In a move that many hope will increase the dismally low numbers of patients undergoing primary angioplasty in India, lawmakers have declared that coronary stents are “essential medicines.” Prices for ...

A recent study found that effective treatment for clogged arteries may differ for men and women, according to research ...

Mar. 24 -- FRIDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- To stent or not to stent? Which type of the artery-opening device is best? When is heart bypass surgery smarter than getting a stent? These are the ...

Gore & Associates announced FDA approval of the Gore Viabahn Fortegra venous stent—previously known as the Gore Viafor ...

Heart attack patients who get an emergency angioplasty to open a blocked artery also should routinely have a stent inserted to keep the blood vessel from clogging again, a large study concludes.

Stents are now used in approximately 80% of all percutaneous coronary interventions. [1,2] Although stents were initially used primarily to reduce restenosis after balloon angioplasty in large vessels ...

Early this year, doctors told 65-year-old Ron Rogan that he needed a metal stent to prop open an artery that was causing shortness of breath. Before the procedure, they asked him to join a ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- While the placement of stents in newly reopened coronary arteries has been shown to reduce the need for repeat angioplasty procedures, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research ...