The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a draft of a proposed national coverage determination (NCD) on carotid stenting, signaling that they consider it to be “reasonable and ...

Your coronary arteries deliver oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle. Over time, plaque can build up in your coronary arteries and limit blood flow through them. This is known as coronary heart ...

Using stents to keep neck arteries open is just as effective as invasive neck surgery for long-term prevention of fatal and disabling strokes, reports an international trial. Using stents to keep neck ...

PARIS — A percutaneous intervention strategy based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides greater procedural success than an angiography-based strategy for stent optimization in calcified ...

Elective carotid artery angioplasty and stenting was initiated in the United States in 1994 by the endovascular interventional team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Carotid stenting was ...

Carotid stenting is a procedure in which a surgeon treats plaque from the carotid arteries and inserts a stent to hold them open. It is a minimally invasive treatment for carotid artery stenosis. The ...

A stent is a tiny tube that a doctor places in an artery or duct to help keep it open and restore the flow of bodily fluids in the area. Stents help relieve blockages and treat narrow or weakened ...

Atherosclerotic renal-artery stenosis is a common problem in the elderly. Despite two randomized trials that did not show a benefit of renal-artery stenting with respect to kidney function, the ...

In the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial, we found no significant difference between the stenting group and the endarterectomy group with respect to the primary composite ...