An international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that for people with severe carotid artery narrowing who ...

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

The study makes it clear there is little to no benefit from elective surgery. If a doctor tells you that they have discovered a narrowing in your carotid artery, maybe tell them you will take the ...

Most carotid-artery stenting or endarterectomy is done for asymptomatic cases. The large CREST-2 randomized trial now shows ...

Stenting, but not endarterectomy, significantly reduced stroke risk compared with intensive medical therapy alone.

Corey Charles says a simple walk to the mailbox helped reveal a near-fatal 99.9% heart blockage that required an urgent double bypass. Now, months later, he's celebrating life, family and a second ...

Two P2Y12 inhibitors often used interchangeably, ticagrelor and prasugrel (antiplatelet medications prescribed to prevent the formation of blood clots), had different impacts on outcomes in patients ...

Surgeons in the United States perform nearly 600,000 coronary artery stent procedures and bypass surgeries every year.

One year of dual antiplatelet therapy with one of two potent P2Y12 inhibitors-ticagrelor or prasugrel-in people with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who had received a drug-eluting stent did not offer the ...

The findings of the CREST-2 trial published in NEJM have revealed that in asymptomatic carotid stenosis, endarterectomy offered no advantage over intensive medical therapy in reducing stroke ...