When a ureteral stent fails, pressure can quietly build inside the kidney long before clinical symptoms. A new device called ...

Ureteral stents are widely used to relieve obstruction and protect kidney function, but they can also become blocked, ...

The patency rate at 6 months was higher for the silicone-coated metallic stent vs double-J stent. A silicone-covered metallic stent maintains patency better than a double-J stent in patients with ...

TCT 375: Optimizing Treatment for MEDINA 0.0.1 Bifurcation Lesions: A Comparative Evaluation of Drug-Coated Balloons and Drug-Eluting Stents Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations ...

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure ...

DALLAS (AP) - New research raises serious questions about a very common medical procedure - placing a stent to prop open a narrowed kidney artery. A study found that people treated with these stents ...

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean, preventing infection, researchers report April 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

In a trial, the newly approval urethral stent provided significant and durable relief of BPH-related LUTS over 12 months. The FDA has approved the ProVee® System for treatment of benign prostatic ...