A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other ...
Researchers found angioplasty with stents used to open clogged heart arteries did not prolong life or prevent heart attack in patients with stable heart disease. However, many cardiologists said ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush’s decision to allow doctors to use a stent to clear a blocked heart artery, performed absent symptoms, is reopening a national debate on the best way to ...
In less than a decade, coronary stenting--the procedure Republican vice presidential candidate Richard B. Cheney underwent yesterday--has grown from an experimental procedure to the standard treatment ...
Aspen Medical confirmed the breakthrough after performing the first-ever Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) at the ...
DALLAS, June 29 – Repeating balloon angioplasty and/or stenting procedures to open narrowed arteries in elderly patients may add more than $700 million a year to Medicare expenses, according to a ...
Two P2Y12 inhibitors often used interchangeably, ticagrelor and prasugrel (antiplatelet medications prescribed to prevent the ...
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