On the morning of the stent procedure, make sure you take aspirin and other blood thinning medication ... You will be taken to a special observation unit where nurses and physician will monitor your ...

Opening a blocked artery with balloons and stents can be lifesaving but as Gujarat deaths show, cases of misuse are also ...

The doctor may also put a stent in your artery. A stent is a small tube that helps keep the artery open. It can also keep small pieces of plaque from breaking off and causing problems. You may need to ...

PCI of these lesions often requires novel devices, such as drug-eluting stents, hydrophilic guidewires ... Figure 4: Event rates in studies comparing CABG surgery and PCI in ULMCA disease.

The Excel trial tested whether stents were as effective as open heart surgery at treating patients with a heart problem called left main disease. The data suggested more people fitted with stents ...

Blood thinners are essential medications for many people who have undergone a procedure called percutaneous coronary ...

PUTRAJAYA: Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli has successfully undergone a heart stent procedure, says his Cabinet colleague Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. Saifuddin, who is also Rafizi's PKR ...

And so, as the child grows and their blood vessels get bigger, doctors have to replace the stents, often with open heart ...

Guidelines recommended both stents and heart surgery for low-risk patients. But trial data leaked to Newsnight raises doubts about this conclusion. Thousands of people in the UK and hundreds of ...

According to the company, XIENCE Sierra is one of the latest generation stents in the XIENCE ... minimally invasive procedure that improves blood flow to the heart. Physicians use PCI to open ...