When the arteries that supply blood to the heart become narrowed or clogged, the condition is known as Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). It makes it difficult for the blood to flow to the heart muscle.

Smokers needed their blocked arteries fixed nearly a decade earlier than non-smokers, and patients with obesity underwent these procedures four years earlier than non-obese patients, according to a ...

Each year more than 500,000 Americans undergo percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, a minimally invasive procedure to unclog the arteries that feed the heart. While PCI, which includes both ...

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 ...

Three years after angioplasty, a 47-year-old developed a severe 95% blockage at his old stent site. Here’s why blockages can return and the warning signs patients should never ignore.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with ACS who had angioplasty and stenting, ticagrelor monotherapy after 1 month reduced bleeding vs.

Thousands of heart patients could be treated without having a metal stent permanently implanted in their arteries—according ...

From January 2003 to January 2005, 165 patients (87 men, 78 women) with four carotid artery stenoses were treated with CAS. Prospective data collection was performed under the approval of the ...

Bollywood Filmmaker Kuku Kohli died on Tuesday, August 25, at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai, two days after being admitted following a heart at ...