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Your doctor will insert a balloon catheter into the carotid stent to open it wider. The stent will remain in place permanently ... You will be taken to a special observation unit where nurses and ...

were the higher incidence of major adverse cardiac events and the higher rate of death or myocardial infarction in the overlapping-stent group than in the two control groups. In terms of ...

There has been interest in developing MRI as an alternative to x-ray for guiding cardiac catheterization because of three key drawbacks of x-rays. The risk of tumor formation from repeated x-ray ...

catheter-based procedure to place a tiny stent into the ductus arteriosus of an infant with only one good pumping chamber in the heart. Normally, that ductus promotes blood flow between mother and ...

Using intravascular imaging (IVI) to guide stent implantation during complex stenting procedures is safer and more effective ...

French Hospital Medical Center (FHMC) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday afternoon to celebrate the opening of the new ...

J&J’s new pivotal study in coronary artery disease, dubbed FORWARD CAD, will test a cardiac-focused version of the Javelin as ...

COIMBATORE: A 25-year-old woman from Tirunelveli who was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta (COA), a rare congenital heart defect, was treated at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) ...

Typical procedures also performed in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory include diagnostic catheterizations as well as the complete spectrum of interventional and therapeutic procedures, including ...

A stent is a thin wire-like mesh used to remove blockages in the arteries, usually in the heart. The ceiling price on bare-metal stents has been revised to ₹10,692.69 and a drug-eluting stent ...