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 ...

No IVUS was performed before stent placement in either group. In the angiography-directed (AG) arm, procedural success was defined as <10% stent diameter stenosis compared with the distal ...

The primary goal of heart health screenings is early detection. Identifying risk factors like high cholesterol, hypertension, ...

The Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (JSCAI) proudly announces the publication of a groundbreaking ...

Vadodara: The bail application of Rajshree Kothari, a director of Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, who was arrested in ...

Violin teacher Constance Meyer’s chronic hacking cough was driving other people crazy. The mother of a new student figured out the cause — just in time.

The patient’s own doctors couldn’t agree on a cause. One said asthma. Another implicated her age, then 71. A third blamed ...

Debra Reals still remembers lying on a gurney with her father and sister at her side as trauma surgeons explained the ...

Nepal's former crown prince, Paras Shah, is undergoing treatment after suffering his fourth heart attack. He was admitted to Norvic International Hospital in Kathmandu on Sunday evening and has ...

In analyzing a subset of 12 patients (pilot study) who had both completion carotid angiography and carotid duplex ultrasonography within 7 days after stenting, 10 patients with normal post ...

Dr. Sacharias von Koch of the Deptartment of Cardiology and Clinical Sciences at Lund University, Skåne University Hospital ...

Restless legs syndrome - the unpleasant urge to move the legs, usually at night - is a common movement disorder which can be ...