When Dr. Robert Tahara performs a limb-saving procedure at Meadville Medical Center (MMC), he often does it without general anesthesia, without an overnight stay, and now, he can do it without leaving ...
Drug-coated balloons are gaining attention as a stent-free angioplasty option, offering a “leave nothing behind” approach ...
A new drug-eluting balloon can perform just as well as the standard treatment for patients with coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) undergoing repeated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). These ...
UI Health Care gastroenterologists became the first in the nation to use a new biodegradable pancreatic stent called ...
In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Dr. Tamil Muthusamy, a UK and Europe-trained interventional cardiologist now practicing in Kuala Lumpur, to discuss his cutting-edge stent called ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A cardiologist at United Medical Center-West performed the first insertion of a drug-coated stent in Wyoming this week, inserting the small mesh tube into the heart of a ...
Patients at Baylor Medicine, the primary multidisciplinary clinical practice of Baylor College of Medicine, and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center who have experienced complex aortic aneurysms can now ...
Northwell’s vascular surgery department just got a high-tech upgrade. The hospital’s newest $6.1 million hybrid operating room, located in New Hyde Park’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center, will allow ...
Imagine a patient in their late sixties who has been living with a bioprosthetic aortic valve when, due to calcium buildup, the valve begins to fail and must be replaced. Because of the patient’s ...
Researchers at the NIH and Emory School of Medicine have completed the first minimally invasive coronary artery bypass of the ...