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 ...
MIAMI BEACH, FL—Venous stenting, an arena in which physicians once had to make do with just a handful of options, is now so crowded with approved, dedicated devices that clinicians may be hard-pressed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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