However, doctors often insert a stent post-procedure in modern angioplasties. A stent is a small tube made from wire mesh that keeps the artery open, improving blood flow. Read on to learn more ...

Just 63 percent of physicians knew that except in emergencies, angioplasties only ease symptoms. And even those who were up to date apparently often didn't inform their patients: 88 percent of ...

Fox News anchor Bret Baier has been away from the news desk while his teenage son underwent emergency open-heart surgery last ...

One dialysis patient in New Jersey endured on at least nine unnecessary X-rays and angioplasties between March 2013 and June 2018, the complaint continued. In several instances, the patient was ...

In the last four years, at the Rane Hospital & Mumbai Heart Clinic, we have done almost 1000 cardiac surgeries with a 97-98% ...

We have all the technology, we can do, we can cure leukemia, we can cure cancer, we can do bypasses, we can do stents and angioplasties, but the most effective thing between a doctor and a patient ...

Everybody has something. This was our something. And getting through that, over that open heart surgery and three others, ten ...

Today, a stent is left behind in perhaps 75 percent of all angioplasties done in the U.S. Most are drug-eluting stents. In answer to your first question, in some cases doctors can place two or ...

The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) is gearing up to introduce an innovative treatment method for ...

Indeed, major inventions of biomedical engineering — such as artificial joints, magnetic resonance imaging, heart pacemakers, heart–lung machines and angioplasties — are built on findings ...

or are in need of high-risk angioplasties to allow stents to be fitted. While coronary angioplasty and stent procedures have been carried out at UHP before, the hospital has not been able to offer ...