when compared with bare-metal stents (BMSs), in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Use of these stents rapidly became widespread in clinical practice. However, reports of ...

NPPA allows price hike for coronary stents to reflect inflation, impacting heart patients' treatment costs in India.

The acute phase of STEMI is a highly unstable condition (hemodynamic instability, heart failure ... 6–13% of patients with implanted bare-metal stents undergo CABG within 1 year after PCI ...

Heart bypass surgery is a new beginning for ... making bypass surgery a safe and routine procedure with minimal risks. Bare Metal Stents (First-Generation): The initial stents were bare metal ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --Using tiny balloons to open clogged arteries -- a procedure called balloon angioplasty -- is one of the most common methods for treating heart blockages. But the newly ...

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 ...

The distal end of the device has an uncovered bare metal stent similar to the proximal ... Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX.

For many, the thought of heart bypass surgery comes with the fear of slowing ... reducing recurrence rates. Bare Metal Stents (First-Generation): The initial stents were bare metal, providing ...