After receiving a stent to treat a narrowed coronary artery, you may be back to your normal activities within a week. But you may have to make some lifestyle changes to maintain healthy heart function ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people who receive one stent will need additional stents, but as the number of devices in the heart increases, so do the risks of serious complications. If a coronary artery has become narrowed, ...

A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other coronary arteries also appear to be narrowed, it is safe to wait and treat ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Cardiologists in West Michigan are working with a new tool — a tool that disappears. It’s a new kind of heart stent the body eventually absorbs. “This basically represents ...

Reflow Medical announced the first six-month clinical results from a study of its Spur Elute sirolimus-eluting retrievable ...

Heart stent procedures have become routine, life-saving interventions for people with blocked arteries. Medically known as angioplasty, this treatment helps restore blood flow and reduce the risk of ...

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.