Drug-eluting stents reduce the occurrence of in-stent restenosis and the need for subsequent target vessel revascularization when compared with bare-metal stents. However, drug-eluting stents may be ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients receiving oral anticoagulation after drug-eluting stent implantation, six weeks of triple therapy is not superior to six months of therapy with respect to net clinical ...

In the 3 years following stent implantation, non-bypass surgery occurs in almost a quarter of patients and imparts few ischemic or bleeding complications, according to a large Japanese registry study ...

Although percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is most commonly guided by angiography alone, results from a new study investigating adjunctive imaging modalities showed that the use of a novel ...

The risks of stent fracture and reintervention after transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) are substantially reduced when patients are prestented, according to combined data from three ...

Previous studies have shown that inflammation plays a key role in the development of restenosis and subsequent events. In particular, C-reactive protein (CRP) is considered a marker of inflammation ...

The advent of drug-eluting stents dramatically reduced the restenosis (reclogging) rate associated with bare-metal stents but prompted new concerns about the rare but potentially lethal complication ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of a polymer mesh-covered bare-metal stent designed to reduce distal embolization during primary PCI was ...

Delayed or deferred stent implantation in patients experiencing the deadliest form of heart attack--ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)—failed to reduce death from any cause, ...

SAN DIEGO -- Implanting drug-eluting stents under intravascular ultrasound-guided (IVUS) guidance improves outcomes compared with angiography guidance, a randomized trial from China found. The primary ...