A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other ...

In less than a decade, coronary stenting--the procedure Republican vice presidential candidate Richard B. Cheney underwent yesterday--has grown from an experimental procedure to the standard treatment ...

Recently, a patient presented to cardiologists with three blockages around the heart. The physicians devised a new hybrid procedure, which included minimally invasive robotic bypass surgery to one ...

Virtual coronary stenting from coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA)-derived imaging is feasible and may aid in planning optimal invasive strategies and predicting functional outcome, ...

The interventional cardiology team led by Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FACC, at UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (SCVC) has successfully completed the first two robotically-assisted coronary ...

Patients with complex coronary artery disease who underwent a stenting procedure guided by intravascular imaging were nearly 40% less likely to die of heart disease, have a heart attack caused by a ...

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 ...

Older patients and those with symptomatic carotid stenosis were at increased risk for mortality, stroke or transient ischemic attack during and after a carotid artery stenting procedure, according to ...

It is not uncommon when ausculting the carotid arteries, to hear a bruit, particularly in the elderly population that we see for cardiac evaluation. Follow-up is likely to require a decision regarding ...

A new procedure can now treat esophageal perforations (holes in the esophagus) when caught early, therefore greatly reducing mortality rates. These holes in the esophagus can occur when undergoing ...

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, ...

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 ...