Cordis, a global leader in interventional cardiovascular technology, today announced the groundbreaking results from the ...

The DCB is meant to address long-term stent-related complications and avoid adding yet another metal layer in ISR.

A stent can be life-saving during a heart attack, but it's not always necessary for those with coronary artery disease.

The REC-CAGEFREE I trial1 by Chao Gao and colleagues describes the results of a multicentre trial in which a paclitaxel drug-coated balloon (DCB) did not reach expected non-inferiority compared with a ...

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect the source of 12-month data for the PRO-Kinetic device. It comes from the previous ENERGY Registry study, and not from the BIOHELIX-1 study. Biotronik ...

CHICAGO.-- Northwestern's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute recently enrolled its first subject in ABSORB III, a clinical trial to study a "disappearing" heart device for the treatment of coronary artery ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --For patients with stable angina, coronary artery stents may have more of a placebo effect than previously thought, researchers in England report in a new study. Researchers from the ...

Analysis suggests stents aren't as beneficial as previously thought. Feb. 28, 2012— -- Inserting stents to open a blocked artery is a common way to treat coronary artery disease. But increasing ...

The FDA approved a new emergency stent device to treat perforations in the blood vessels of the heart, the agency’s first new treatment option in the indication in 17 years. Deep tears in coronary ...

A new generation of coronary artery stent that combines a biodegradable component with an ultrathin scaffold showed promising results compared with the current gold standard, in a large population of ...

The placement of a stent to repair a narrowed artery in the heart has become routine worldwide. A new analysis of earlier clinical trials shows that inserting a stent has no benefit over standard ...

Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(1):93-100. In-stent thrombosis More often seen when ≥1 stent used, long stented segments of coronary artery, drug-eluting stents, bifurcation lesion stenting Incomplete ...