Stents are often placed during a heart attack, so this is not always a procedure you'll be able to prepare for. In the case that it is — most commonly to relieve symptoms of chest pain ...

Your vital signs (heart rate and blood pressure ... call us immediately if you have any new symptoms or worsening of the symptoms you had before the stent placement, including: Severe headache Slurred ...

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 ...

In a significant update, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has been admitted to AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) ...

A stent is a small mesh tube inserted into an artery that has been narrowed by plaque build-up. In the US, nearly two million stents are implanted every year, and they can be life-saving during a ...

No IVUS was performed before stent placement in either group. In the angiography-directed (AG) arm, procedural success was defined as <10% stent diameter stenosis compared with the distal ...

If stents work well, why do some people still need heart surgery? The answer lies in the severity and location of the ...

catheter-based procedure to place a tiny stent into the ductus arteriosus of an infant with only one good pumping chamber in the heart. Normally, that ductus promotes blood flow between mother and ...

Background and Aims: Technical limitations of conventional endoscopes and delivery systems frequently hamper palliative endoscopic placement of self-expandable metal stents for malignant small ...