Females with heart disease are often treated with stenting, a procedure in which a tiny wire-mesh tube is slipped inside a ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Key Takeaways Bypass surgery is better than stents for serious heart disease.A stent is less invasive and usually faster to recover from than bypass ...

Carotid stenting is a procedure in which a surgeon treats plaque from the carotid arteries and inserts a stent to hold them open. It is a minimally invasive treatment for carotid artery stenosis. The ...

Research has shown that patients who have had emergency heart attack treatment with heart artery stenting - and have significant narrowings in their other untreated arteries - can benefit from ...

HONOLULU, HI—Results of carotid revascularization with either surgery or stenting stand up well over the long term, with very low rates of stroke through up to a decade of follow-up, new data from the ...

September 18, 2006 -- A prospective study suggests renal artery stenting using techniques similar to those used in coronary artery stenting can be done with high procedural success and good clinical ...

Women with severe coronary heart disease causing narrowing or blockages in the arteries may derive greater long-term benefits ...

Baltimore, MD -- A new comparison of the procedures to help prevent strokes by removing or relieving blockages in the arteries of the neck concludes they are equally effective at halting repeat ...

As you may be aware, the heart’s arteries are not rigid pipes; they’re living structures that twist, flex, constrict, expand, ...

Previous studies have shown that the use of conventional, bare-metal stents shows no significant benefit over plain-old balloon angioplasty (POBA) for the treatment of lesions in small coronary ...

A small, first-in-man study suggests that in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) who do not respond to drugs like Viagra and Cialis, stenting pelvic arterial lesions can safely restore penile blood ...

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