Rod Stewart is pausing his current tour for four weeks following a heart procedure. The 81-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer underwent a routine procedure to insert a coronary stent — a small mesh ...

A multinational study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risks of major complications after stenting or bypass surgery are similar, even several years out. The risk of death ...

Can a heart stent get blocked again? A cardiac surgeon explains the causes, warning signs, risk factors, treatment and ways ...

CHICAGO — Patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease who underwent a less-invasive stent procedure fared just as well as those who underwent open-heart bypass surgery after 5 years, the FAME 3 ...

A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other coronary arteries also appear to be narrowed, it is safe to wait and treat ...

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is no longer something that happens to the elderly. Across India, there is a growing and concerning pattern of patients in their 30s and 40s walking in with significantly ...

A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed or ...

A multinational study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine has found that the risks of major complications after stenting or bypass surgery are similar, even several years out. The risk of death ...

One in five coronary stent procedures done in the United States under Medicare are unnecessary and cost taxpayers around $800 million a year, revealed a recent report. A coronary stent is a tiny tube ...

A heart stent is a small mesh tube that opens blocked coronary arteries to improve blood flow. You can receive multiple stents, but the risk of restenosis (re-narrowing) increases by 36% with each ...