The stent keeps arteries open, allowing the required drugs to be delivered and do their job. It then dissolves. Untreated clogged arteries can cause leg amputations. Surgeons insert the ...

The stent will remain in place permanently ... pain or bleeding Weakness or numbness affecting one side of your body (for instance, your right arm, leg, or face becomes weaker than your left) Blurry ...

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 the plaque against the walls of the artery. This makes more room for ...

During Layla's procedure, Dr. Ringewald advanced several sequential Minima stents through a vein in her leg to her right pulmonary artery. Once deployed, her pulmonary artery was enlarged to five ...