During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart surgery are overall relatively safe and effective, data from a retrospective, ...

Many minimally invasive procedures are available to treat problems with your heart. These procedures can fix issues like malfunctioning valves and blockages in your heart’s arteries. Traditional heart ...

The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children ...

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 ...

Maryland health officials, investigating allegations that a cardiologist in Towson, Md., performed medically unnecessary cardiac stent procedures, have identified several other cardiologists in the ...

Kansas head coach Bill Self was discharged from the hospital on Sunday after he received a heart catheterization and had two stents implemented in his heart. Self, 60, was checked into the University ...

Heart catheterizations are challenging procedures, to say the least. Now, thanks to a $100,000 grant, a team from Cooper University Health Care will be able to enhance an invention designed to improve ...

Heart attacks are rising concern in young, fit Indians. Experts explain the hidden risks—like genes, Lp(a), stress and ...

MRI-guided and XMR catheterization has a significant potential for wide clinical application but remains limited by cost, hardware and software development. There is renewed enthusiasm to develop ...