Health Canada has granted authorisation for Abbott’s Esprit BTK Everolimus Eluting Resorbable Scaffold System, a dissolvable ...

Aggressive drug therapy appears to be just as good as angioplasty for patients with stable heart disease, a new study finds. "This is really good news for patients," said study lead author Dr. William ...

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that Health Canada has authorized the Esprit™ BTK Everolimus Eluting Resorbable Scaffold ...

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The best path to a clogged heart might be through the wrist. About a million artery-clearing angioplasties are performed in the United States each year, and the usual route is to thread a tube to the ...

Angioplasty is a treatment for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which is a blood clot that forms in one of the deep veins typically in your legs. DVT can partly or totally block the blood flow back to your ...

Balloon angioplasty is a minimally invasive procedure to treat blocked or narrowed arteries. It involves inserting a tiny balloon into a blood vessel and inflating it to treat blockages and improve ...

A vacuum-cleaner-like device that sucks blood clots out of the arteries of heart attack victims before angioplasty reduces the death rate in the following year by nearly half, researchers reported ...

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

India Live 2012 has showcased two cases of complex interventional angioplasty live, which was organized by Cardiovascular Educational Research Trust at New Delhi, recently. This cases was telecasted ...

In 1990, at the age of 60, Hackman underwent an angioplasty, according to a report by the United Press International. Hackman had been experiencing chest pains that radiated down one of his arms while ...