were the higher incidence of major adverse cardiac events and the higher rate of death or myocardial infarction in the overlapping-stent group than in the two control groups. In terms of ...

A total of 214 studies were performed in 187 patients from a retrospective analysis of pediatric and adult patients who underwent MRI-guided and XMR cardiac catheterizations in our institution ...

After careful positioning, your doctor will open the stent to cover the plaque. Your doctor will insert a balloon catheter into the carotid stent to open it wider. The stent will remain in place ...

Stone, MD, Director of Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology ... cardiologists use a catheter to place stents in the blocked coronary arteries ...

To do this, the doctor uses a catheter with a balloon at the tip. It goes into the artery in your groin or leg. He or she moves the balloon to the narrowed area and inflates it. The balloon presses ...

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The Excel trial tested whether stents were as effective as open heart ... available information on mortality was withheld from the cardiology and thoracic surgery community," Dr Lars Wallentin ...