The Washington Post

Stenting Is Procedure Of Choice

In less than a decade, coronary stenting--the procedure Republican vice presidential candidate Richard B. Cheney underwent yesterday--has grown from an experimental procedure to the standard treatment ...
WRAL

Stenting Can Be Beneficial for Some Heart Patients

Researchers found angioplasty with stents used to open clogged heart arteries did not prolong life or prevent heart attack in patients with stable heart disease. However, many cardiologists said ...
Medscape

A Two-Step PCI for Blocked Arteries: Does Timing Matter?

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

Stenting reduces stroke risk in people with carotid artery narrowing, study finds

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

Bush has stent procedure, which has been debated

MINNEAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush’s decision to allow doctors to use a stent to clear a blocked heart artery, performed absent symptoms, is reopening a national debate on the best way to ...
Los Angeles Times

Angioplasty plus stents is as good as surgery for clearing neck arteries, study finds

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A combination of angioplasty and stenting are as good as the gold ...
EurekAlert!

Repeat angioplasty, stenting significantly increases Medicare costs

DALLAS, June 29 – Repeating balloon angioplasty and/or stenting procedures to open narrowed arteries in elderly patients may add more than $700 million a year to Medicare expenses, according to a ...
Business Insider

Asia-Pacific Pancreatic and Biliary Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Pancreatic and Biliary Stenting Procedures and ...

New York, Nov. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Asia-Pacific Pancreatic and Biliary Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Endoscopic Retrograde ...

Effectiveness of Anti-clotting Meds After Stent Placement Varied in People With Diabetes

Two P2Y12 inhibitors often used interchangeably, ticagrelor and prasugrel (antiplatelet medications prescribed to prevent the formation of blood clots), had different impacts on outcomes in patients ...
Fierce Healthcare

Nearly a quarter of hospital stent procedures are unnecessary, fueling billions in low-value spending, Lown Institute finds

More than a fifth of all coronary stents given to Medicare patients at hospitals nationwide from 2019 to 2021 are medically unnecessary, driving more than $2.4 billion in unnecessary program spending ...
Business Insider

North America Airway Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Airway Stenting Procedures for Other Indications and Malignant Airway Obstruction Stenting Procedures

New York, Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "North America Airway Stent Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Airway Stenting Procedures for Other ...