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 stent is a small mesh-like tube that reopens a blocked artery to allow blood to flow freely to the heart, thus relieving the patient of chest pain. When someone has a heart attack or a blocked heart ...

Twenty-four weeks into her pregnancy, Serena Chen and her husband received unexpected news: a fetal echocardiogram revealed that their daughter, Chloe, would be born with a congenial heart defect that ...

Each year, nearly a million Americans undergo implantation of heart stents. These tiny, wiry tubes of woven metal help prop open the coronary arteries, which supply the heart muscle with blood. Though ...

Cardiologists have implanted Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories’ new dissolving heart stent into the first patients, according to The Wall Street Journal. The biodegradable stent, called Absorb, was ...

The movie star's 66-year-old father had recently undergone an angioplasty procedure to place a stent in his heart to open up ...

The Minima Stent System is the first and only FDA-approved stent specifically tailored for neonates, infants and young children Renata Medical, focused on treating unmet pediatric needs, has secured ...