Brain stents help keep the blood flowing in the brain, placed into narrow places within a blood vessel to prop it open and help maintain blood flow. These stents, known as intracranial stenting ...

In 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first stent to treat brain aneurysms. Since the use of a stent for a brain aneurysm is a fairly new treatment approach, there is not a ...

A pipeline stent is a treatment for a brain aneurysm. It’s a minimally invasive procedure that blocks blood flow through the affected part of the blood vessel. Doctors treat brain aneurysms at ...

Brain stents, are specially useful in patients who have repeated strokes despite taking proper medicines which is due to the critical narrowing of the blood vessel, supplying the blood to the brain.

Brain stents for stroke patients are offering new hope this holiday season, and the procedure is gaining more and more acceptance. The procedure is gaining more and more acceptance, ...

“The best outcomes, explains Dr. Modak, “occur when the medication is administered within 3 to 4.5 hours of the onset of ...

Origami is a traditional Japanese art form where people create intricate designs by folding paper, but the technique can also keep people alive. Science and engineering professor Richard James and ...

The cohort averaged age 69.6 and 65.9% were men. About 20% were symptomatic, 43% had diabetes, 10.5% had had a previous carotid endarterectomy, and 35.9% a prior coronary stenting or angioplasty.

Stenting is commonly used for strokes caused by partial blockage of a carotid artery, which carries blood to the brain. But there had not been much research on whether it would work for complete ...

A stroke, sometimes called a "brain attack," occurs when blood flow to an area in the brain is cut off. If a stroke is not caught early, permanent brain damage or death can result.

Fluid Biomed has completed a $27m Series A equity financing round to advance the development of its stent for treating brain aneurysms. The Canada-based company claims the ReSolv stent is the ...