A one-month course of dual clot-preventing therapy followed by a single clot-prevention medication for the remainder of the ...

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 ...

A bioadaptor implant that actively adapts to vessel physiology was linked to lower target lesion failure and target vessel ...

"TCT 2025: Elixir Medical’s arterial implant drops coronary events by nearly 50%" was originally created and published by ...

Despite the impressive benefits obtained following the introduction of the drug-eluting stent, safety concerns have been raised over their long-term safety with particular regard to stent thrombosis.

In the treatment of larger narrowed blood vessels, drug-coated balloon catheters have been shown to deliver lasting and ...

Nebraska Medicine recently became the first health system in the U.S. to implant a new type of cardiac stent. A team led by Yiannis Chatzizisis, MD, PhD, section chief of interventional cardiology at ...

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 ...

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.

A Children's Hospital Los Angeles team has become the first in the world to implant a cardiac stent that's designed specifically for babies and young children and can be expanded all the way to adult ...

Participants included in the trial have been diagnosed with either aortic dissection or aneurysm involving the aortic arch.

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 ...