MINNEAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush’s decision to allow doctors to use a stent to clear a blocked heart artery, performed absent symptoms, is reopening a national debate on the best way to ...
Q: I am a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with coronary artery disease. My latest calcium score was 801. My right coronary artery was 80 percent blocked, and the left artery was 25 percent. My ...
A multinational study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risks of major complications after stenting or bypass surgery are similar, even several years out. The risk of death ...
A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed or ...
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, ...
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Follow this lifestyle after a stent is placed in your heart to prevent a heart attack again.
A stent is a small mesh-like tube that reopens a blocked artery to allow blood to flow freely to the heart, thus relieving ...
Former President George W. Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday to treat a blocked artery in his heart. Doctors discovered the blockage during Bush’s routine physical, and recommended a stent to keep the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The average person with multiple diseased arteries in the heart does slightly better following coronary artery bypass surgery than after having stents inserted, a new study ...
Dr. Robert Hallett, cardiovascular interventionist, performed the first implantation of the new Endeavor stent in East Texas. The FDA approved this next generation drug-eluting stent a month and a ...
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Round Rock doctor becomes first in U.S. to insert carotid artery stent that lessens stroke risk
New CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System from InspireMD has a finer mesh that prevents plaque or clots from flowing into the ...
When Dr. Robert Tahara performs a limb-saving procedure at Meadville Medical Center (MMC), he often does it without general anesthesia, without an overnight stay, and now, he can do it without leaving ...
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