A drug-eluting stent (DES), a mesh tube that can help prop open arteries after they are widened by balloon angioplasty, is more helpful than a bare-metal stent in preventing death and heart attacks for up to five years, according to a new study. Drug-eluting stents release...
If you are an African American, on Medicaid or don’t have health insurance, you are less likely than other patients to get a drug-eluting stent (DES). Stents – which come in bare-metal and DES varieties – are mesh tubes that help prop open arteries after they are...
One in seven patients undergoing uncomplicated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can go home just eight hours after the procedure and do well, according to a new study published in the August issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
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Given his long and arduous history of heart disease, Dick Cheney is lucky to still be alive.
More specifically, according to the former vice president’s cardiologist, Cheney is fortunate his lifetime of heart issues have coincided with the advent of several breakthrough...
For several decades, open-heart surgery has been the gold-standard technique for aortic valve replacement (AVR). Now, a new technique approved in Europe and under investigation in the United States – percutaneous heart valve (PHV) replacement – may prove at least...