After receiving a stent to treat a narrowed coronary artery, you may be back to your normal activities within a week. But you may have to make some lifestyle changes to maintain healthy heart function ...

Stent placement is a common procedure to treat a brain aneurysm. It diverts blood flow to avoid extra pressure on the aneurysm that may cause it to burst. A brain aneurysm develops when there is a ...

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

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 ...

Heart stents have saved countless lives and remain one of the most effective treatments for blocked coronary arteries. By improving blood flow to the heart, they help relieve chest pain and lower the ...

Doctors at hospitals or surgery centers routinely place unnecessary coronary stents in Medicare patients with stable heart disease, according to a new report. More than one in five coronary stents ...

Carotid stent surgery is one of two procedures that can be used to treat carotid artery stenosis. This procedure is considered a less invasive option with a faster recovery time. However, it does have ...