A self-expanding nitinol stent is associated with high patency and durability in patients with atherosclerotic popliteal artery disease, according to a study published in the January 2013 issue of ...

Download this article's Factoid (PDF & PPT for Gold Subscribers) In patients with popliteal artery lesions, primary stenting is superior to an initial strategy of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty ...

Provided by Cardiovascular Research Foundation : Nitinol stent performs better than balloon angioplasty alone in treating lesions of the popliteal artery (2012, October 24) retrieved 20 July 2024 ...

WEBSTER, Texas, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEV Technologies today announced the publication of positive clinical outcomes for the Supera ® Peripheral Stent System in the Journal of American ...

Aug. 20 -- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Twelve-year data on treatment of blockage of the left main heart artery indicate that using a drug-coated stent is an effective a ...

Angioplasty is a medical procedure in which your surgeon uses a tiny balloon to widen an artery. A stent is a tiny mesh tube that’s inserted into your artery and left there to prevent it from ...

The mean (±SD) number of stents implanted in a patient's left main coronary lesions was 1.2±0.5, the mean total length of the stents was 28.0±20.7 mm, and the mean stent diameter was 3.5±0.4 mm.

Methods A total of 220 symptomatic patients with high-grade lesions in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery were randomly assigned to treatment — 110 to surgery and 110 to stenting.

Tell any dentist or doctor who treats you for any reason that you have a stent implant in your neck, and keep your Stent Implant Card with you at all times. Your Stent Implant Card identifies the ...

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is a rare blood vessel condition that is most likely to develop in young male athletes. It causes pain while walking, which improves while at rest.

Three-year data from RESILIENT show that the LifeStent stent has durable patency and better quality of life and function than balloon angioplasty in the superficial femoral artery.

Germany's Biotronik touted a recent study of its CE-marked Pulsar-18 stent for peripheral artery disease, saying the data showed the device can be used in challenging cases of the condition.