A stent is tubular in shape and usually made of metal or ceramic. It is designed to keep a part of the coronary artery open. Coronary arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood to the heart ...

To do this, the doctor uses a catheter with a balloon at the tip. It goes into the artery in your groin or leg. He or she moves the balloon to the narrowed area and inflates it. The balloon presses ...

After careful positioning, your doctor will open the stent to cover the plaque. Your doctor will insert a balloon catheter into the carotid stent to open it wider. The stent will remain in place ...

It is designed to make lumen size and stent apposition instantly recognizable ... plug-and-play Eagle Eye Platinum digital IVUS catheter, Eagle Eye Platinum ST and Visions PV ...

Children’s National Hospital is the only place in the U.S. using a toothpick-sized stent for infants.Children’s National Hospital is the only place in the U.S. using a toothpick-sized stent ...

Vascular surgeons at Doylestown Hospital have pioneered a dissolvable stent that holds clogged arteries open long enough to ...

"Stents are mesh tubes that help keep arteries open and blood flowing," said Dr. Jeremy Ringewald, pediatric cardiologist and director of the cardiac catheterization laboratories at St. Joseph's ...