Patients with heart disease who undergo coronary angioplasty have an equivalent risk of death and heart attack as patients who undergo coronary bypass surgery, according to Stanford University School ...

London, UK - In a finding that would appear to go against the swelling tide of support for primary angioplasty as the treatment of choice for acute MI, investigators comparing primary angioplasty with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The need for repeat intervention after infrapopliteal angioplasty for critical limb ischemia may increase risk ...

Submaximal balloon angioplasty for symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) improved outcomes over aggressive medical management alone, the BASIS trial from China showed. The incidence ...

The first randomized trial to compare standard percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as coronary angioplasty, with PCI accompanied by the use of a temporary, miniaturized pump to ...

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ An experimental device that acts like a miniature drill and vacuum cleaner partially broke up clogs inside diseased heart arteries and sucked out the debris, letting doctors conduct ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infrapopliteal angioplasty was associated with positive outcomes in high-risk patients with critical limb ...

Dallas, TX - A subgroup analysis from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) indicates that patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of recurrent ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Angioplasty is a procedure to open blocked heart arteries using a small balloon and sometimes a stent.You may need to stay overnight in the ...

Navi Mumbai, Jan 09: A 60-year-old man from Bihar who had suffered a major heart attack and was living with severely reduced heart function successfully underwent a complex percutaneous coronary ...