BOSTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Drug-coated stents implanted into clogged arteries of the heart work better than uncoated stents for high-risk patients, without a significant trade off in safety, a Canadian ...

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the hospital on Thursday for a stent procedure after reporting chest pains. See a computer animation showing how angioplasty and stents work to open ...

Heart stents have saved countless lives and remain one of the most effective treatments for blocked coronary arteries. By improving blood flow to the heart, they help relieve chest pain and lower the ...

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in America and of the nearly 800,000 people suffering heart attacks each year, many receive heart stents as a treatment to relieve blocked arteries or ...

A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed or ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with heart disease, small metal tubes called "stents" are often inserted into the coronary arteries during angioplasty to keep the vessels open and prevent a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients who have a specific type of blocked heart artery seem to do equally well if they undergo artery-clearing angioplasty or a minimally invasive "key hole" bypass ...