POLYMER-FREE amphilimus-eluting stents (AES) were found to be non-inferior to biodegradable-polymer everolimus-eluting stents (EES) at one-year follow-up in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary ...

This can be done with angioplasty (possibly including stent placement) or with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also called open-heart surgery. An angioplasty involves threading a wire to the ...

An apt moniker, considering 87-year-old Ram Das (name changed), a South Mumbai businessman, has 12 stents in his heart, the last one placed in a 45-minute procedure on Saturday. His surgeon says Das ...

Background Biodegradable materials that dissolve after aneurysm healing are promising techniques in the field of neurointerventional surgery. We investigated the effects of various bioabsorable ...

4 Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr J W Jukema, Department of Cardiology C5-P, Leiden ...

Brittany said her mom was 45 years old when she suffered a massive heart attack in 2009. It led to emergency surgery, and doctors put in a heart stent. Fast forward to this past December, when ...

Regenerative medicine has received a revolutionary boost by UK scientists who have used biodegradable synthetic textile scaffolds inside cardiac patients to grow new living heart valves. UK scientists ...

Brittany said her mom was 45 years old when she suffered a massive heart attack in 2009. It led to emergency surgery, and doctors put in a heart stent. Fast forward to this past December, when ...

More heart problems followed. During the past nine years, he has had 16 stents placed. He received his pacemaker defibrillator in 2013. “St. Jude calls me Battery-Operated Bad Ass,” he said.

Heart disease is a term used to describe a constellation of conditions that can affect the heart and/or its valves, vessels, structure, electrical system, or coronary arteries. Though each disease ...