Dr. Charanjit Rihal answers the question: 'Life Expectancy After Stent?' — -- Question: How long is person expected to live after a stent is inserted? Answer: How long a patient is expected to ...

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 ...

InterVene’s Recana is claimed to be the first fully integrated catheter system to address venous in-stent restenosis (ISR).

Half of patients undergoing cerebrovascular stent placement did not respond well to clopidogrel, according to a new study. Clopidogrel and aspirin are medications routinely prescribed for one to three ...

This report compared the benefits of 2 types of surgical palliation for patients with malignant colorectal cancer: insertion of a stent (n = 30) or a palliative surgical procedure (n =14). Patients ...

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 ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality based on fiberoptic technology that provides high resolution (~ten-times higher than that of intravascular ultrasound) and real-time ...

Introduction: Biliary stenting with radioactive seed placement has become a frequently applied palliative intervention for patients with obstructive hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HC). Despite its ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 75-year-old wife had two third generation medicine-eluting stents inserted into a branch of the left anterior coronary artery in January 2020. On 75 mg of clopidogrel and 81 mg of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 75-year-old wife had two third generation medicine-eluting stents inserted into a branch of the left anterior coronary artery in January 2020. On 75 mg of clopidogrel and 81 mg of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Placing the Xen45 gel stent using an ab externo technique helped lower IOP in patients with glaucoma, according ...