During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

Stent placement is a common procedure to treat a brain aneurysm. It diverts blood flow to avoid extra pressure on the aneurysm that may cause it to burst. A brain aneurysm develops when there is a ...

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FDA flags safety risk with Boston Scientific stents after reports of deployment issues causing deaths and injuries, prompting a Class I recall.

Introduction Is Long-term Single Antiplatelet Clopidogrel Therapy Safe After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation in Patients on Anticoagulants? MATRIX Registry: Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After ...

Stent–graft placement is used to treat aneurysms of the abdominal aorta. Weakening of the wall of the aorta can lead to widening of the vessel, or aneurysm. Aneurysms may rupture causing internal ...

Gastric-outlet obstruction (GOO) refers to mechanical or functional obstruction of the flow of gastric contents into the small intestine. Symptoms of GOO include early satiety, postprandial abdominal ...

A covered stent appears to be a safe alternative to angioplasty alone for AVF stenosis, according to investigators. To maintain patency of an upper extremity arteriovenous fistula (AVF), placement of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 75-year-old wife had two third generation medicine-eluting stents inserted into a branch of the left anterior coronary artery in January 2020. On 75 mg of clopidogrel and 81 mg of ...