The CGuard® Prime Carotid Stent System demonstrated the lowest 30-day and 1-year primary endpoint major adverse event rates of any pivotal study ...

A new study published in the journal of Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine revealed that in patients with complex left ...

Recent trials of percutaneous revascularization for the treatment of renal artery stenosis have been disappointing. In many cases, essential hypertension coexists with the presence of renal artery ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—Carotid artery stenting remains a practical alternative to carotid endarterectomy in patients at average- or high-risk for surgery, according to new data from the SAPPHIRE and ...

(UPDATED) A low-profile, fixed-wire DES for direct stenting failed to meet a prespecified noninferiority composite endpoint of target lesion failure at 1 year against contemporary DES comparators, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The “full-metal jacket” procedure using drug-eluting stents for PCI in patients with chronic total occlusions is ...

A stent is a small mesh tube inserted into an artery that has been narrowed by plaque build-up. In the US, nearly two million stents are implanted every year, and they can be life-saving during a ...

Intracranial angioplasty again failed for less severe intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) strokes in a Chinese trial. However, a separate analysis did leave a glimmer of hope that IV ...

This approach significantly reduces the risk of future re-narrowing of the artery and improves long-term outcomes for ...

The multicentre DANAMI-3-DEFER trial in Denmark (March 2011 to February 2014) found no significant clinical benefits of deferred stenting over conventional PCI with immediate stenting for patients ...

If the patient is getting recurrent TIAs, MRI-angiography is done and it will be noticed that there is no stroke in the brain but the artery is getting blocked nearly completely, then, the stroke can ...

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary angioplasty with stenting restores heart's blood flow and manages atherosclerosis. Knowledge is always your best ally when it comes to heart health ...