As the division chief of cardiovascular medicine for the University of Kansas Health System, Dr. Mark Wiley is no stranger to stent procedures. This week, Dr. Wiley spoke with The Star to explain the ...

Former President George W. Bush is recovering in a Texas hospital after doctors discovered a blocked artery during a routine physical. Doctors put in a wire mesh stent to clear the blockage. He s ...

A new medical technology made its Cincinnati debut this month in Butler County. Interventional cardiologists Dr. Kevin Cochran and Dr. Dan Eckert implanted the newly commercially available ...

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus was the only hospital in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area selected to participate in an earlier clinical trial demonstrating the ...

Stents restore blood flow by keeping arteries open with a metal scaffold tube. Dr. Wiley emphasized multiple stents over time are common and not alarming. Stents rarely impact lifestyle; risk ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Data on real-world use of drug-coated balloons (DCBs) compared with drug-eluting stents for in-stent restenosis (ISR) and de novo lesions in small coronary arteries shed light on their ...