Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in America and of the nearly 800,000 people suffering heart attacks each year, many receive heart stents as a treatment to relieve blocked arteries or ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

Heart stents have saved countless lives and remain one of the most effective treatments for blocked coronary arteries. By improving blood flow to the heart, they help relieve chest pain and lower the ...

Each year, nearly a million Americans undergo implantation of heart stents. These tiny, wiry tubes of woven metal help prop open the coronary arteries, which supply the heart muscle with blood. Though ...

Highly-invasive surgeries have been the standard treatment for babies born with heart defects for decades. A newly FDA- approved stent designed to grow with the child ...

CHICAGO -- Much-anticipated new drug-covered stents, expected to cost three times more than the standard variety, could actually save money in the long run by reducing heart patients' need for ...

A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed or ...

Results from the first randomized trial of Impella pumps during complex stent procedures, published in the New England ...