In approximately 75% of all procedures, all types of stents will achieve similar outcomes, making adequate device selection unnecessary. For the remaining quarter, careful preoperative screening ...

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.

After a calcium score test and stress test, my doctor wanted to place stents in my coronary arteries ... improvement in lifespans or in preventing heart attacks. Your cardiologist wanted to ...

Recent studies have explored the effectiveness and hemodynamic impacts of multilayer stents in various types of aortic aneurysms. One study focused on the hemodynamic effects of eccentricity in ...

The use of stents helps restore airway patency, allowing for improved breathing and quality of life. Recent research has focused on the development of various types of stents, including ...

There are two types of stents, metallic and dissolving. Which is better? Stents are normally made of metal, but dissolving heart stents are also made. Now, dissolving heart stents have been withdrawn.