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 ...

PARIS, France—Two techniques to deal with potential coronary obstruction after TAVI—chimney stenting and the BASILICA procedure—are equally successful when it comes to preventing this rare but ...

ATLANTA, GA (March 14, 2006) -- Cardiologists are continually searching for the most effective and non-invasive methods of treatment for their patients. Two studies presented today at the American ...

After receiving a stent to treat a narrowed coronary artery, you may be back to your normal activities within a week. But you may have to make some lifestyle changes to maintain healthy heart function ...

New research could change standard-of-care guidelines to improve outcomes for heart attack patients after coronary stenting procedures. Withdrawing aspirin one month after percutaneous coronary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CMS will pay for certain angioplasty and stenting procedures in ASCs beginning Jan. 1, under its 2020 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System Final Rule. 1. ASCs ...