Dr. Michael Acker answers the question: 'Why Bypass Surgery Instead Of Stents?' — -- Question: Why do some patients require bypass surgery instead of stents? Answer: There are some situations ...

Heart stents have long been a go-to treatment for blocked arteries. More than 500,000 of the little mesh cages are inserted each year. But researchers at Imperial College London found that stents ...

On Tuesday, FDA announced that it has approved the first bioresorbable polymer stent, a development bound to spur competition between Abbott that makes the device and Boston Scientific that makes a ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly 5 percent more likely to die a year or more later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial ...

Washington, DC - Predicting the future is a fool's game, and predicting successful drug and device therapy in cardiovascular medicine is just as tricky. When bioabsorbable stents emerged on the radar ...

In the treatment of larger narrowed blood vessels, drug-coated balloon catheters have been shown to deliver lasting and effective outcomes. Their minimally invasive nature makes them a viable ...