NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Minor heart procedures can be performed safely even at hospitals that can't do emergency heart surgery in case of complications, a fresh look at past studies suggests. As ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A combination of angioplasty and stenting are as good as the gold ...

New York, Nov. 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "BRIC Airway Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Airway Stenting Procedures for Other Indications and ...

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 ...

Next-generation vascular stents can make cardiovascular therapies minimally invasive and vascular treatments safe and less ...

New York, Nov. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Asia-Pacific Pancreatic and Biliary Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Endoscopic Retrograde ...

Heidelberg, Germany - Results of a randomized trial of carotid stenting vs endarterectomy in symptomatic patients has failed to demonstrate noninferiority of the stenting procedure [1]. The trial, ...

Procedures that remove plaque from a narrowed carotid artery in the neck or prop the artery open with a stent did not appear to be better at improving cognitive function than medi ...

More than a fifth of all coronary stents given to Medicare patients at hospitals nationwide from 2019 to 2021 are medically unnecessary, driving more than $2.4 billion in unnecessary program spending ...

CREST-2 may end routine CEA for asymptomatic carotid stenosis, but its message is nuanced, raising new questions about ...