also reduced restenosis rates in patients who underwent coronary angioplasty (56% received stents); see Journal Watch Cardiology Jan 4 2002. A new trial refutes this finding. The subjects ...

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 ...

Peripheral artery angioplasty is a procedure to treat peripheral arterial ... This makes more room for blood to flow. The doctor may also put a stent in your artery. A stent is a small tube that helps ...

"Outcomes through 30 days and 1 year include the lowest 1-year stroke rates reported for any prospective, multicenter pivotal ...

Dr. Kalarickal was instrumental in advancing coronary angioplasty, carotid, and coronary stenting in India. He was also the founding member of the National Angioplasty Registry of India.

The benefits of conventional stenting are primarily conferred within weeks of angioplasty ... assessed the feasibility of bioabsorbable coronary stents made from a magnesium alloy—demonstrated ...

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 ...

In patients undergoing chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), stenting demonstrated improved ...

Coronary stents—small, mesh-like tubes inserted into narrowed or blocked arteries—are essential in restoring blood flow following angioplasty and are a key treatment for CAD. Among these, drug-eluting ...

CMS ruling opened the door for ASCsto receive Medicare reimbursement for certain angioplasty and stenting procedures, and a new study suggests these procedures are just as safe in ASCs as they are in ...

Dr Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, revered as the Father of Angioplasty in India and a towering figure in interventional cardiology, passed away, on Friday, April 18, ...