Cardiac infections after heart stent procedures are rare but serious, with mortality rates up to 40 percent and symptoms ...

Adding a balloon or stent procedure (endovascular angioplasty to widen blood vessels in the neck) to standard treatment may make little to no difference to the chance of another stroke or mini-stroke ...

In a significant medical breakthrough for Parbhani, a complex angioplasty procedure was carried out successfully on the leg of an elderly patient using advanced ‘cutting balloon’ technology at RP ...

A specialised indemnity heart policy makes sense for someone diagnosed with a coronary disease, or one who has undergone a ...

Heart stents effectively treat coronary artery disease, but arteries can re-block over time due to restenosis, atherosclerosis, or blood clots. Warning signs include chest pain, breathlessness, and ...

The number of interventional cardiology procedures has increased rapidly during the last decades. Fluoroscopic X-ray procedures, such as coronary angiography and percutaneous transluminal coronary ...

KGMU Lucknow adds excimer laser coronary angioplasty to treat complex coronary blockages, including restenosis, calcified ...

The remarks came during a three-day conference organised by the National Interventional Council at Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority revises stent prices, DES capped at Rs 39,186, BMS at Rs 10,762, effective April ...

An open-label, prospective, large-scale trial was carried out to evaluate the benefits of coating these balloons with sirolimus, which is an antiproliferative drug. The trial followed ...

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage of a coronary artery who received a nonsurgical procedure to reopen the ...

The first randomized trial to compare standard percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as coronary angioplasty, with PCI accompanied by the use of a temporary, miniaturized pump to ...