A 42 years old male patient was admitted with resuscitated sudden cardiac death. Electrocardiogram revealed ST segment elevation in leads II, III, and aVF. After crossing the lesion with a floppy ...

Purpose: The mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics of sirolimus when used as part of a drug-eluting stent (DES) and the efficacy and cost of using DESs versus bare-metal stents are discussed.

Every year, 60,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with heart failure, and many are treated with stents. In a large new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, my colleagues and I ...

In patients undergoing chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), stenting demonstrated improved long-term survival and fewer cardiac arrests at one year. The ...

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore - BIOTRONIK today announced the United States (US) commercial launch of the PK Papyrus® covered coronary stent system for use in the emergency treatment of acute coronary perforations ...

Stents are commonly used during procedures like angioplasty, where a catheter is inserted into a blocked artery.

The delivery of coronary artery stents is a procedure that affects over 1 million patients each year in the United States. With an aging population, the declining cost of stents and reimbursement ...

Patients with complex coronary artery disease who underwent a stenting procedure guided by intravascular imaging were nearly 40% less likely to die of heart disease, have a heart attack caused by a ...

Despite the morbidity associated with coronary artery bypass graft, this procedure has never been entirely displaced by percutaneous coronary intervention. The results from the latest in a series of ...

"There is little doubt that in combination with a controlled drug-eluting design and a reabsorbable polymer, the use of an absorbable stent will likely become a valuable tool in the future." Coronary ...

Drug-eluting stents (DES) have transformed the management of coronary artery disease by combining mechanical scaffolding with local delivery of antiproliferative agents to inhibit neointimal ...