Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

Using intravascular imaging (IVI) to guide stent implantation during complex stenting procedures is safer and more effective for patients with severely calcified coronary artery disease than ...

Coronary arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood to the heart muscle. Stents are placed through a cardiac angiogram, a procedure in which a catheter is placed in the groin and run up to ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting is a more invasive procedure where surgeons use blood vessels from another part of the body to create a new route for blood to flow around blocked arteries. It is ...

Patients with narrowing of at least 50% in three major coronary arteries did equally well when treated with a minimally invasive stent placement guided either by ultrasound-based imaging or by a novel ...

Consequently, the ensuing coronary angiogram enables restratification of the underlying residual thrombus as follows: No residual thrombus – grade 0 Small residual thrombus – grade 1–3 Large ...

The Massachusetts General Hospital research involving 284 patients who had undergone a traditional computed tomography ...

in the treatment of patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). After a decade of study, the results of the International Study of Comparative Health Effectiveness With Medical and ...

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony has said that over the years, capacity has increased over the years for coronary diseases with close to 600 patients ...

Satnam Ludder points out a narrowing of a coronary artery on this angiogram video of a patient ... 2006 and performed the first coronary artery stent procedure at the Modesto hospital in the ...