Maintaining iron homeostasis is necessary for kidney functioning. There is more and more research indicating that kidney disease is often caused by iron imbalance. Over the past decade, ferroptosis’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Phase 3 clinical trial found that injections of the semaglutide medication once weekly reduced the risk of kidney disease worsening by 24% in people who also had diabetes. It also reduced the ...

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