Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart ...

Feb. 7, 2003 — Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided balloon angioplasty halves the need for stenting at the cost of a more expensive and complex procedure, according to the results of the Balloon ...

Aortic coarctation is a congenital narrowing of part of the aorta, most commonly the aortic arch, usually close to the origin of the left subclavian artery. This results in high blood pressure in the ...

Chronic atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease commonly causes narrowing or blockage of lower limb arteries. Symptoms include intermittent claudication, ischaemic rest pain, ulceration and ...

The PercuSurge balloon was deployed and CAS was performed successfully in all 43 patients. No patient developed dissection of any of the access vessels. There were no instances of occlusion of the ...

Stent grafts may be more effective than balloon angioplasty in prolonging the function of stenosed arteriovenous access grafts and in lowering the likelihood of requiring additional interventions, ...

Using a paclitaxel-coated balloon to treat femoropopliteal artery disease results in better primary patency than does standard balloon angioplasty at 1 year and is associated with good safety outcomes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A sirolimus-eluting balloon was noninferior to drug-eluting stents in treating de novo coronary lesions. The ...

Hollywood, FL—Angioplasty with a drug-coated balloon for the treatment of in-stent restenosis of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) achieves significantly better patency at 12 months compared with ...

Submaximal balloon angioplasty for symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) improved outcomes over aggressive medical management alone, the BASIS trial from China showed. The incidence ...