Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Angioplasty is a procedure to open blocked heart arteries using a ...

Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart surgery are overall relatively safe and effective, data from a retrospective, ...

Berlin, Germany - Balloon angioplasty under intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance appears comparable to stenting at 6 months, a new study shows. However, given the advent of drug-eluting stents, ...

Tiny clogged arteries in the heart that have long bedeviled cardiologists' attempts at repair can now be kept flowing smoothly with new drug-coated stents that have already revolutionized treatment of ...

Over the last several years angioplasty has exceeded coronary bypass surgery as the preferred way to treat coronary artery disease. The stents, narrow tubes inserted into the artery to facilitate ...

Heart bypass surgery is considered the gold standard for most patients with left main coronary artery disease, one of the most serious types of heart disease and one that affects thousands. But a new ...

A drug-eluting resorbable stent was found to be just as effective in treating infrapopliteal artery disease in patients at risk of limb amputation, according to a study published Oct. 25 in the New ...

In some cases, blockages are cleared by inflating a balloon-like device inside the vessel (angioplasty) and inserting a stent to keep the vessel open. The procedure is performed on about 40,000 to ...

In patients with deep venous thrombosis (DVT) who have persistent high-grade residual stenosis even after thrombectomy or catheter-delivered thrombolysis, stenting offers more durable protection from ...

Two Jackson cardiologists are using a new angioplasty procedure that can be much easier on their patients. Instead of performing the procedure the traditional way, through the femoral artery in the ...

A new Journal of the American Medical Association study has found that angioplasties are misused in more than one-tenth of patients undergoing elective treatment, highlighting concerns that physicians ...

Clinical Studies Have Shown Stopping Medication Early Puts Patients at a Greater Risk of Another Heart Event and Death[1][2] To address this critical issue, the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses ...