Stent thrombosis is a rare but potentially life threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It develops when a blood clot blocks blood flow through your stent. A coronary ...

Abbott has delivered new, longer-term data from a clinical study of its dissolving stent for severe peripheral artery disease ...

Endologix announced final 36-month results for the DETOUR2 study evaluating its Detour system for treating peripheral ...

This is called jaundice. Jaundice can make you feel unwell. Your doctor may suggest that you have a small tube called a stent put in your bile duct to keep it open. The stent is made of plastic or ...

Stents can also be placed in brain blood vessels to treat strokes caused by artery narrowing. This neurovascular intervention involves inserting a stent through a small needle in the leg or hand ...

As next steps, the researchers plan to develop a version that works with metal stents. In the longer term, they will further miniaturize the sensor—allowing several sensors to be distributed ...

This topic was extensively reviewed recently by Honori and colleagues. [12] Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stent placement are becoming an increasingly common and effective ...

A newly FDA- approved stent designed to grow with the child offers a better option.Oct. 17, 2024 ...

The Espirit everolimus-eluting scaffold. [Image from the Abbott website] Abbott (NYSE:ABT) today announced data demonstrating ...

ANGELA STENT is Professor Emerita at Georgetown University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2004 to 2006, she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and ...

To complicate things, patients may also develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions to metals (ie, in-stent restenosis, prosthesis loosening, inflammation, pain, or allergic contact dermatitis ...