Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A paclitaxel-coated balloon bested conventional angioplasty in treating coronary in-stent restenosis. The coated ...

Drug-coated balloons are gaining attention as a stent-free angioplasty option, offering a “leave nothing behind” approach ...

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute is among the first institutions in the Carolinas to treat coronary artery disease using a newly FDA-approved device made by Boston ...

Scripps Clinic interventional cardiologist Paul Teirstein, M.D., became the first in Southern California to use a newly approved drug-coated balloon to clear a clogged stent that previously had been ...

Compared with standard balloon angioplasty, the drug-coated balloon strategy appeared to suppress recurrent ISR over six months in a 52-patient study, published online November 13, 2006 in the New ...

Jerry Bailey was awake while a medical team at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital reopened one of his previously stented arteries using a new heart procedure. "It's working," the 73-year-old said a few ...

FARGO — Doctors at Essentia Health now have a new tool to assist patients with circulation issues. A "drug-coated balloon" is a promising new treatment option, and Scott Davis from Cass County was the ...

When arterial plaque-a sticky combination of fatty deposits, calcified material, inflammatory cells and other substances-build up on the inner walls of coronary or other arteries, blood flow ...

Boston, MA - A paclitaxel-coated balloon may end up filling a role never successfully filled by drug-eluting stents (DES): angioplasty of the leg. According to Dr Gunnar Tepe ...

Data from first coronary DCB study in U.S. meet 12-month primary endpoint, demonstrate low adverse event rates with AGENT DCB While coronary stenting is commonly used to restore blood flow to the ...