Stents are now used in approximately 80% of all percutaneous coronary interventions. [1,2] Although stents were initially used primarily to reduce restenosis after balloon angioplasty in large vessels ...

Stents are commonly used during procedures like angioplasty, where a catheter is inserted into a blocked artery.

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) today released an expert consensus on the management of in-stent restenosis and stent thrombosis. The statement was published online ...

Treating narrowed or blocked heart arteries has evolved over the past 40 years. This week, the FDA approved the latest step in that evolution — a stent that dissolves away, leaving nothing behind.

(UPDATED) Using optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance to determine that a STEMI patient does not, in fact, have an occlusive lesion can significantly reduce the rate of stent implantation ...

PARIS, France—Some of the smallest vessels in the coronary tree now have their own stent—provided regulators are persuaded by data from the RESOLUTE ONYX 2.0 mm stent study, which was presented ...