Coronary stenting is a critical procedure used to ... and advancements in intracoronary imaging have improved our understanding of these processes. Current recommendations suggest an ...

Stents may help certain patients with coronary artery disease Stents are ... Some patients whose blockages are discovered after an imaging test, for example, and not causing physical symptoms ...

In the PROGRESS-AMS trial, Erbel and colleagues assessed the feasibility of bioabsorbable coronary stents made from a magnesium alloy—demonstrated in animal pilot studies to be completely ...

Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

Published in the journal Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging ... only 21.9% requiring a surgical procedure to insert stents to open narrowed coronary arteries, compared with 78.9% of the non ...