PARIS, France—It’s not a stent in a traditional sense, nor a scaffold that completely disappears over time, but a new device—one that “unchains” itself over time—has cleared an early hurdle by proving ...

A new drug-eluting balloon can perform just as well as the standard treatment for patients with coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) undergoing repeated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). These ...

A new report published Tuesday found over one in five coronary stents placed between 2019 and 2021 were unnecessary, costing Medicare $800 million a year and putting patients at risk of complications ...

Purpose: The mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics of sirolimus when used as part of a drug-eluting stent (DES) and the efficacy and cost of using DESs versus bare-metal stents are discussed.

Researchers have identified in a new study that both super-high-pressure noncompliant balloons and cutting balloons are ...

Abbott aims to build optical coherence tomography into a preferred tool for guiding the placement of stents that increase blood flow to the heart muscle. But a pair of major late-breaking studies ...

Impact of cardiac arrhythmias on in-hospital mortality in patients with cytokine release syndrome: Insights from National Inpatient Sample. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Annual ...

More than a fifth of all coronary stents given to Medicare patients at hospitals nationwide from 2019 to 2021 are medically unnecessary, driving more than $2.4 billion in unnecessary program spending ...

Clopidogrel outperformed aspirin in what is believed to be the first and largest randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of the two antiplatelet drugs as long-term maintenance therapy for ...

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