Compared to bare metal stents, placement of stents that release the medication paclitaxel reduces the risk of the artery re-narrowing nine months following angioplasty for patients with complex ...

A variety of randomized studies have shown that the use of radiation delivered in a sufficient dose to the vessel wall is the only effective method available to prevent restenosis after arterial ...

Imaging-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with better clinical outcomes than angiography-guided PCI. Whether routine optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance in PCI of ...

Patients who receive drug-eluting stents (DES) for a first coronary intervention are significantly less likely to develop new lesions in the downstream target vessel requiring a second intervention ...

Restenosis after coronary stenting necessitates repeated percutaneous or surgical revascularization procedures. The delivery of paclitaxel to the site of vascular injury may reduce the incidence of ...

PARIS, France—In patients with small-vessel coronary artery disease, using a drug-coated balloon (DCB) appears safe and comparable to DES implantation, with favorable angiographic outcomes out to 1 ...

Most coronary arteries affected by spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) heal spontaneously on repeat angiography, with the vast majority completely healed after 30 days from the SCAD event, ...