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 ...

Heart bypass surgery is a new beginning for patients, significantly enhancing longevity and quality of life. It is performed when critical blockages a ...

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 ...

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 cardiology world is abuzz with the revelation of yet another clinical trial that has shown no added advantage with balloon angioplasty, compared to optimal medical therapy, in the treatment of ...

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 ...

Methods Patients with IIH and VSS undergoing stenting at a tertiary hospital in China were enrolled consecutively from 2017 to 2023. Based on digital subtraction angiography, high-resolution MRI, and ...

According to the company, the trial evaluated the company’s River venous sinus stent for the treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) in patients who are refractory or intolerant to ...

has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in patients with complex coronary artery lesions compared with angiography-guided PCI. However, the prognostic impact of suboptimal findings on ...

Background The patency of intracranial stents may not be reliably assessed with either CT angiography or MR angiography due to imaging artifacts. We investigated the potential of ultra-high resolution ...

Then, a balloon-expandable (for VA) or self-expanding (for ICA and CCA) stent was implanted if there was distal stenosis or dissection through rechecked angiography. Finally, angiography was performed ...