Tens of thousands of heart patients are missing out on an exciting new development which could save their lives. It involves a stent, a spring-like stainless steel device, smaller than a paper ...

Individuals with long coronary lesions requiring implantation of multiple stents are an important patient subgroup for whom careful evaluation and decision-making with optimal stent deployment is ...

25), South Korean researchers report that for patients at high risk for bleeding following stent implantation, three months of DAPT was better than one month at reducing heart attacks, strokes and ...

but because of advances in minimally invasive procedures like heart stent placement, heart surgery is done less commonly ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest period to date of someone with the technology. The patient, a man in his 40s ...