Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

In the PROGRESS-AMS trial, Erbel and colleagues assessed the feasibility of bioabsorbable coronary stents made from a magnesium alloy—demonstrated in animal pilot studies to be completely ...

In the US, nearly two million stents are implanted every year, and they can be life-saving during a heart attack. But they may not always be the best treatment method for coronary artery disease.

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In the recent past, rigid plastic endoprostheses were used to palliate malignant dysphagia. However, these bulky devices required general anesthesia for placement and had a high complication rate.

The process involves combining coronary angioplasty with stenting, which is the insertion of a permanent wire-meshed tube that is either drug eluting (DES) or composed of bare metal (BMS).