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 ...

The doctor may also put a stent in your artery. A stent is a small tube that helps keep the artery open. It can also keep small pieces of plaque from breaking off and causing problems. You may need to ...

Your vital signs (heart rate and blood pressure) and the area in which the catheter was inserted ... After discharge, call us immediately if you have any new symptoms or worsening of the symptoms you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

To promote technological innovation, Xi stressed on Wednesday the need to develop a modernized industrial system and to ...

PUTRAJAYA: Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli has successfully undergone a heart stent procedure, says his Cabinet colleague Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. Saifuddin, who is also Rafizi's PKR ...

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

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 ...