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 ...

Coronary artery disease, a major global health concern, is effectively managed through angioplasty or bypass surgery. Angioplasty offers a minimally invasive option for single blockages with rapid ...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PCTA) is a surgical procedure to treat heart disease. It involves inserting a small balloon into the arteries to manage blockages or restore blood flow. A person ...

While you won't always be able to prepare for a stent, there are some cases where you'll need to talk with your doctor ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 17 – Survival rates following emergency angioplasty for heart attack are the same regardless of the availability of on-site cardiac surgery, according to research reported today at the ...

Q. My husband recently suffered a small heart attack and had an angioplasty performed and a stent inserted soon after his symptoms began. But I just read a news report about a recent investigation ...

A stent can be life-saving during a heart attack, but it's not always necessary for those with coronary artery disease.

A hospital executive’s turn from employee to patient pushed Hackensack Meridian Southern Ocean Medical Center at the Jersey Shore to meet the state threshold to offer elective angioplasty. SOMC ...

Jerry Bailey was awake while a medical team at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital reopened one of his previously stented arteries using a new heart procedure. "It's working," the 73-year-old said a few ...

A clinical study from Boston Scientific showed that a drug-coated balloon small enough to reach and reopen the heart’s coronary arteries could outperform traditional drugless angioplasty procedures.