Long-term results from the largest randomized trial of stenting and surgery have shown that the procedures are equally ...

The effects of using stents have recently come under fire by some critics. However, some argue the procedure can provide certain benefits for different patients.

Impact of the NCD on referrals and volumes of transfemoral carotid artery stenting, the multidisciplinary approach to evaluation and treatment, considering patient factors and patient preference, ...

There was no benefit to modulating the intensity of antiplatelet therapy compared with standard antiplatelet therapy in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush’s decision to allow doctors to use a stent to clear a blocked heart artery, performed absent symptoms, is reopening a national debate on ...

In less than a decade, coronary stenting--the procedure Republican vice presidential candidate Richard B. Cheney underwent yesterday--has grown from an experimental procedure to the standard ...

Repeating balloon angioplasty and/or stenting procedures to open narrowed arteries in elderly patients may add more than $700 million a year to Medicare expenses, according to a report in today's ...

Routine use of an orbital atherectomy device to remove calcium from severely blocked coronary arteries before patients undergo cardiac stenting procedures does not improve outcomes, a Mount Sinai ...

Nearly a quarter of hospital stent procedures are unnecessary, fueling billions in low-value spending, Lown Institute finds ...

The report provides procedure volumes within market categories - Airway Stenting Procedures, Bariatric Surgery Procedures, Biopsy Procedures, Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP ...