Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine ...

Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine believe they’ve found a drug for cardiac stents that can more effectively prevent stent complications. Over a million people in the U.S. each ...

Results from the first randomized trial of Impella pumps during complex stent procedures, published in the New England ...

The Texas Medical Board has accused cardiologist Samuel J. DeMaio, MD, of performing unnecessary heart stent and defibrillator implantation procedures and angiograms, according to an Austin ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with coronary artery disease. My latest calcium score was 801. My right coronary artery was 80% blocked, and the left artery was 25%. My cardiologist ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Cardiologists in West Michigan are working with a new tool — a tool that disappears. It’s a new kind of heart stent the body eventually absorbs. “This basically represents ...

A sirolimus eluting balloon performs similarly to a usual care strategy for repeat coronary in stent restenosis at 1 year, ...

Every year, around 40,000 babies in the U.S. are born with congenital heart defects, often requiring stents to keep their blood vessels open, NBC News reported Oct. 17. Traditionally, pediatric ...

Purpose: The mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics of sirolimus when used as part of a drug-eluting stent (DES) and the efficacy and cost of using DESs versus bare-metal stents are discussed.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Last October, on one of her walks with her dog, Emmett, 76-year-old Eileen Aviss felt tightness in her chest. She went home and Googled the symptoms to try to figure out what ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with coronary artery disease. My latest calcium score was 801. My right coronary artery was 80% blocked, and the left artery was 25%. My cardiologist ...