"Heart disease takes years to decades to develop, and the process starts in the younger years," one heart doctor told us. Here, cardiologists share their best-kept secrets to set up your ticker for a ...

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 ...

Furthermore, Serranator provided a 49% improvement in residual stenosis compared to POBA and an even greater result in CTOs (62% improvement compared to POBA), while minimizing dissections and vessel ...

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 ...

The recently approved device simplifies operator manipulations by loading a balloon and filter onto the stent.

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 ...

The number of quadrants involving calcification was higher in the hypotension group (2 vs 1, p<0.001). There was a statistically significant difference in stent types between the hypotension group and ...

Furthermore, as drug-eluting stents are reducing the specific problem of restenosis, interventionists must refocus on treatments that attenuate atherosclerosis progression in general.

Along with these challenges, treatment options are expanding, increasingly including calcium modification prior to stent implantation. A newly published SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on the ...

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 ...

Higher Thiazide Doses Shown to Reduce Kidney Stone Events Aug. 22, 2024 — Higher thiazide doses are associated with greater reductions in urine calcium, which in turn correlate with fewer ...