CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Research being conducted here in the Bay Area could provide a major advance for heart patients. Surgeons at John Muir Medical Center in Concord are implanting patients with a ...

FARGO - Arlene Olson had a bulge in the aortic artery inside her abdomen that was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Not long ago, because of the small size of her artery, the 87-year-old woman ...

A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

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Cardiovascular Institute of the South founder and cardiologist Craig Walker, MD, performed the nation’s first stent implant using Biotronik’s Pulsar-18 T3 to treat an artery blockage in the legs, Biz ...

People with several clogged heart arteries fared better if they had bypass surgery rather than a less-drastic procedure in which the blood vessels are propped open with tiny mesh cylinders called ...

More than a fifth of all coronary stents given to Medicare patients at hospitals nationwide from 2019 to 2021 are medically unnecessary, driving more than $2.4 billion in unnecessary program spending ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians was staying overnight in a New York City hospital after having a stent placement Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of his U.S.