A stent is a mesh tube that is implanted into an artery that has become narrow or weak. Arteries carry blood away from the heart. Weak or narrow arteries can sometimes burst. Stents allow blood to ...

A revolutionary new heart stent is changing cardiac medicine and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is the first hospital from Miami to Jacksonville to use it in cardiac patients. What makes the Abbott ...

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 ...

Cardiac stents have transformed the landscape of cardiovascular medicine, providing a less invasive and highly effective means to treat coronary artery disease. What is a stent? A cardiac stent is a ...

Examining new research on and uses for stents -- spring-like devices that keep heart patients' narrowing arteries open. Susan Dentzer reports. We deployed what we call a stent in Mr. Cheney's diagonal ...

Carotid stent surgery is one of two procedures that can be used to treat carotid artery stenosis. This procedure is considered a less invasive option with a faster recovery time. However, it does have ...

Coronary stents, those tiny mesh tubes that prop open blocked blood vessels, have helped millions of people avoid invasive and complicated bypass surgery. But stents cease to be needed after the blood ...

Peripheral artery angioplasty is a procedure to treat peripheral arterial disease of the legs. The procedure widens narrowed arteries in the pelvis or legs. It can help blood flow better. This may ...

It’s a little bulkier, with thicker struts, and is nowhere near as refined as the sleeker, more mature permanent-scaffold drug-eluting stents widely in use. But as the Absorb GT1 bioresorbable ...

Among individuals in Sweden receiving second-generation drug-eluting stents, those with diabetes, particularly type 1 ...

Medical extrusion providers are increasingly expected to produce complex, close-tolerance tubing that meets the functional design requirements of minimally invasive stent- and catheter ...