NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Minor heart procedures can be performed safely even at hospitals that can't do emergency heart surgery in case of complications, a fresh look at past studies suggests. As ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart ...

A pipeline stent is a treatment for a brain aneurysm. It’s a minimally invasive procedure that blocks blood flow through the affected part of the blood vessel. Doctors treat brain aneurysms at risk of ...

ATLANTA, GA (March 14, 2006) -- Cardiologists are continually searching for the most effective and non-invasive methods of treatment for their patients. Two studies presented today at the American ...

Former President George W. Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday to treat a blocked artery in his heart. Doctors discovered the blockage during Bush’s routine physical, and recommended a stent to keep the ...

Q: I am a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with coronary artery disease. My latest calcium score was 801. My right coronary artery was 80 percent blocked, and the left artery was 25 percent. My ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A newer, less invasive approach to preventing strokes using a device called a stent proved to be as safe and worked just about as well as surgery, U.S. researchers said on Friday, ...

An Oklahoma man is celebrating Christmas with his family thanks to doctors at OU Health. Doctors performed a procedure for the first time, and it saved a man’s life. “Every day you get up; thank God ...

VS3 Medical, Inc. announced it has commenced enrollment in an international first-in-human (FIH) study evaluating the VS3 Med ...