Cardiac stents have transformed the landscape of cardiovascular medicine, providing a less invasive and highly effective means to treat coronary artery disease. What is a stent? A cardiac stent is a ...

A stent designed specifically for infants and young children with congenital heart disease has demonstrated strong safety and effectiveness in a pivotal multicenter clinical trial. Children's Hospital ...

Carotid stent surgery is one of two procedures that can be used to treat carotid artery stenosis. This procedure is considered a less invasive option with a faster recovery time. However, it does have ...

PARIS, France—It’s not a stent in a traditional sense, nor a scaffold that completely disappears over time, but a new device—one that “unchains” itself over time—has cleared an early hurdle by proving ...

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 ...

Can heart stents decline over time or need replacement? A cardiologist explains how stents work, why problems can develop, ...

Drug-coated balloons are gaining attention as a stent-free angioplasty option, offering a “leave nothing behind” approach ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A surgeon completed the world’s first deep venous stent thrombectomies for chronic stent occlusion via a ...

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 ...