He or she moves the balloon to the narrowed area and inflates it. The balloon presses the plaque against the walls of the artery. This makes more room for blood to flow. The doctor may also put a ...

Coronary angioplasty and stenting are common medical procedures used to widen a narrowed artery and restore optimal blood flow to the heart. During an angioplasty procedure, doctors open the ...

In the PROGRESS-AMS trial, Erbel and colleagues assessed the feasibility of bioabsorbable coronary stents made from a magnesium alloy—demonstrated in animal pilot studies to be completely ...

Although immediate failure rates decrease with 'bail-out' or 'primary' stenting with BMS, neointimal hyperplasia can lead to late target-lesion restenosis. DESs that were being placed in the ...

Cite this: Drug-eluting Stents for Infrapopliteal Arterial Disease in the Setting of Critical Limb Ischemia - Medscape - Oct 01, 2011. Autologous vein bypass is the standard of care for ...

As a result of this funding, the company claims it is the only arterial shunt developer carrying ... arm of a clinical trial evaluating its stent graft for the treatment of aortic arch disease.