(HealthDay News) — A drug-coated stent is superior to a bare-metal stent for patients at high risk for bleeding who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to a study published ...

(BETHESDA, MD)--Once a coronary stent becomes blocked with scar tissue, the likelihood it will become blocked again is 30 percent to 80 percent. Inserting a second coronary stent that slowly releases ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drug-coated heart stents are as safe as the old bare metal variety for patients with narrowed large coronary arteries, a large European study showed, alleviating concerns about ...

Sirolimus-eluting stents are proven to provide clinical benefits for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, but are more costly than bare-metal stents. A group from the Netherlands ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A national group of researchers has found yet another example of how American medicine may be spending hundreds of millions of dollars more than necessary to keep us healthy. In ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 – Late-breaking data from the landmark HORIZONS-AMI clinical trial, presented at the 21st annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific ...

New research shows the use of drug-coated balloons is an optimal approach compared to bare metal stents in treating femoropopliteal lesions. New research published in the Journal of the American ...

Heart patients’ treatment bill is set to rise after India’s drug cost regulator allowed manufacturers and importers to increase the price of coronary stents by almost 2 per cent to account for ...

Co announces a three-year follow-up subset analysis presented as a late-breaking clinical trial at EuroPCR 2007 showed that the Cypher Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent had results comparable to ...

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 ...