What is a kidney scan? A kidney scan is an imaging test that looks at your kidneys. Your health care provider can also see how well blood is flowing in your kidneys. A kidney scan is also called a ...

A short wire mesh tube (stent) is put in the artery to keep it open. But calcified fatty deposits can make placing the stent difficult. So, in this procedure to make this easier and avoid damaging the ...

Use intravascular lithotripsy as an option to treat calcified coronary arteries during percutaneous coronary intervention with standard arrangements in place for clinical governance, consent and audit ...

PCI of calcified lesions is associated with higher ... dyslipidemia, diabetes, chronic kidney disease), procedure characteristics (total stent length, maximum inflation pressure, and device-to-artery ...

In previous cases, we have observed a possible relationship between calcification and intracranial in-stent restenosis (ISR) using optical coherence tomography (OCT). Therefore, our study aimed to ...

Methods From March 2017 to September 2018, seven cases of calcified lesions with intracranial vertebral artery stenosis were investigated using OCT, before and after the placement of an Apollo balloon ...

lumc.nl Pathophysiological mechanisms that have been associated with the phenomenon of LASM include positive arterial remodelling, decrease in plaque volume or thrombus dissolution behind the stent ...

Bentley’s BeFlow Covered Stent for Iliac Occlusive Diseases Launched in Europe January 28, 2025—Bentley InnoMed GmbH announced the market launch of its BeFlow iliac covered stent system, which will be ...

Results We found that OA progressed by both top-down calcification at the joint surface and bottom-up calcification at the osteochondral interface. The top-down calcification process started with ...

This innovative technique, which uses drug-coated balloons instead of stents to treat blocked arteries ... options that we use to get rid of the calcium gathered inside the blood vessels which ...

A ureteral stent is a flexible plastic tube for insertion into the ureter to treat or prevent blockages that impede urine flow from the kidney to the bladder, such as kidney stones. Once the ...

Once inflated, an expandable mesh tube (called a stent) can be inserted to keep the vessel open. Because balloon angioplasty is used to correct severely impaired blood flow, the benefits of treatment ...