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 ...

A Mayo Clinic study suggests that an hourglass-shaped stent could improve blood flow and ease severe and reoccurring chest ...

A study at Mayo Clinic suggests that an hourglass-shaped stent could improve blood flow and ease severe and reoccurring chest pain in people with microvascular disease.

Stents are, of course, used in other scenarios to open large arteries. The new stent, with its unique pinched-in-the-middle ...

After a decade of study, the results of the International Study of Comparative Health Effectiveness With Medical and Invasive Approaches (Ischemia) Trial were revealed at the American Heart ...

Former India hockey player and son of legendary Major Dhyan Chand, Ashok Kumar suffered a heart attack after being hospitalised here for discomfort in chest but is now stable and out of danger, ...

About 40% of patients receiving a diagnostic coronary angiogram for chest pain ... reduction in blood flow affecting the heart muscle. Unlike tube-shaped stents used to open clogged arteries ...

A cardiac CT angiogram is a test that essentially ... he might need open heart surgery and as many as three stents to avoid a major heart attack. Luckily, he was able to remove the plaque with ...

Police have registered three FIRs over the death of two PMJAY beneficiaries due to unnecessary and botched angioplasty at an Ahmedabad hospital and arrested the doctor who performed the heart ...

"After doing angiography, they performed angioplasty on seven of them and also put a stent. Of these seven, two died soon ...