Carotid stent surgery is one of two procedures that can be used to treat carotid artery stenosis. This procedure is considered a less invasive option with a faster recovery time. However, it does have ...

On the day before your treatment, you may be asked to withhold some of your blood pressure medication. This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Coronary angioplasty and stenting are common medical procedures used to widen a narrowed artery and restore optimal blood flow to the heart.

Stents used to widen blood vessels in treating congenital heart disease have remained unavailable in Japan for the past three ...

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 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 risk of ...

Results from the first randomized trial of Impella pumps during complex stent procedures, published in the New England ...

For patients with life-threatening aneurysms of the carotid artery in the neck, a minimally invasive stent-grafting technique can be just as effective as traditional open surgery, but with faster ...

FILE - This May 31, 2013 file photo shows former President George W. Bush during the unveiling their of his in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Bush has successfully undergone a heart ...