The impact of overlap of drug-eluting stents on clinical and angiographic outcomes is controversial. Individuals with long coronary lesions requiring implantation of multiple stents are an ...

In summary, long and small-sized ostial, overlapping stents were implanted in an elderly, diabetic female patient with diabetes mellitus, three-vessel CAD with a well collateralized ostial CTO of ...

Compromised collateral flow that causes focal infractions may result from coronary side-branch obstruction, or an occlusion from multiple, overlapping stents. Surgical Dilemma: What to do With ...

The FDA has approved a new type of stent designed specifically for infants and young children—including neonates born with congenital heart defects—that’s designed to expand in size as the ...

The balloon presses the plaque against the walls of the artery. This makes more room for blood to flow. The doctor may also put a stent in your artery. A stent is a small tube that helps keep the ...

This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent procedure. On the morning of the stent procedure, make sure you take aspirin and other blood thinning ...

CHARLOTTE — Newly approved medical technology offered at Atrium Health has helped a local man get back on his feet after a stent in his artery was blocked by scar tissue. Stan Ciepcielinski is ...

If, during a cardiac catheterization procedure, the doctor determines that more than one stent is required to open one or more partially closed coronary arteries, can multiple stents be inserted ...

“They go into my liver and put stents in to try and help drain the ... And with that, I have what’s called overlap syndrome, which includes autoimmune hepatitis,” she explained.

As the human population increases and we build more and more infrastructure across the planet, there will be increasing overlap between humans and animals in the next 50 years. About 57 percent of ...

Novel drug-coated balloons (DCB) did not outshine standard treatment with second generation drug-eluting stents (DES) as they were expected to, in a surprise finding of the first randomized trial ...

The method comprises receiving, by a substance management system, a dosage instruction for administering a substance to an ...