While most people think that heart attacks occur suddenly, the fact of the matter is that most heart attacks occur after years of fatty deposits in the arteries, that eventually partially, or ...

An international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that for people with severe carotid artery narrowing who ...

When most people think of a heart attack, they imagine a blocked artery causing sudden, severe symptoms. But for many women, ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular causes, death from any cause and future ...

Most carotid-artery stenting or endarterectomy is done for asymptomatic cases. The large CREST-2 randomized trial now shows ...

Heart disease is the number one cause of death globally, and yearly, millions of people around the world, are diagnosed with the condition. However, the good news is that while heart disease is not ...

Jaipur: Doctors at SMS Hospital successfully treated a 34-year-old Sikar man whose main artery supplying blood to the ...

After an unsuccessful percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion, subintimal tracking and reentry with ...

India is now known as the heart disease capital of the world. With the turn of the century, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have become the leading cause of mortality in India. CVD affects Indians at ...

For the first time in Europe, a patient has been fitted with a novel "dissolvable" treatment for a dangerous health condition - and the treatment will disappear completely. Stephen Laurie, 60 and from ...

Doctors detected the problem during a routine check up on Monday on the 67-year-old ex-president and successfully implanted a device called a stent to unblock his artery in an operation carried out in ...