Boston, MA - Results of the CADILLAC trial, showing stents to be superior to primary PTCA in acute MI (AMI) patients, have now been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The Controlled ...

Compared with thrombolytic reperfusion, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has been found superior for the primary management of acute myocardial infarction in terms of reducing the ...

MIAMI, FLA.—In treating blockages of the popliteal artery, a nitinol stent performs better than standard angioplasty alone with minimal clinical adverse events, according to a multicenter study.

Patients who develop in-stent restenosis (ISR) are at a very high risk of recurrence after conventional balloon angioplasty. The use of repeat bare metal stent implantation has not made a significant ...

Paclitaxel-eluting balloons are more effective than conventional balloon angioplasty at treating bare-metal stent (BMS) or drug-eluting stent (DES) restenosis, according to the results of a randomized ...

TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2016 -- Patients who suffer a heart attack live longer now than they did before, and invasive procedures such as angioplasty, stents and bypass get a lot of the credit, a new study ...

When the arteries that supply blood to the heart become narrowed or clogged, the condition is known as Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). It makes it difficult for the blood to flow to the heart muscle.

The researchers identified 1,288 matched pairs of patients who underwent either balloon angioplasty alone or stenting -- yet all had a similar likelihood of receiving a stent based on their clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart ...

For more than a decade, stents have propped open closed coronary arteries in a million people every year. But in about a fifth of these cases, scar tissue reblocked the artery. Now a new design, with ...

Angiography mainly shows the silhouette of the artery, while tests such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) allow doctors to see the artery from the inside.

Coronary angioplasty and stenting are common medical procedures used to widen a narrowed artery and restore optimal blood flow to the heart. During an angioplasty procedure, doctors open the blocked ...