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 ...

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

Dr. Chris Metzger has performed as many carotid stenting procedures as any other doctor in the United States in the last 4 years. Its not unusual to see Dr. Metzger and his team hard at work but this ...

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

Surgeon James McCaslin, operating on Cramlington man Stephen Laurie, became the first in Europe to fit a stent that will help ...

KINGSPORT — Dr. Chris Metzger this week performed carotid stent procedures as more than 1,000 doctors from around the country watched live via satellite.

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

In a dimly lit cardiac catheterization lab, an interventional cardiologist concentrates intently on a live X-ray of a beating heart. The doctor carefully guides a long, thin wire, threading it through ...

Now you see it, now you don't. A new type of heart stent that works like dissolving stitches, slowly going away after it has done its job, passed its first major test in a large study, doctors said ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XCath, an early-stage medical device company dedicated to expanding endovascular treatment modalities through its smart steerable guidewires and robotic systems, will exhibit ...