ATLANTA -- The concept of using stents to seal off non-flow-limiting vulnerable plaques, before they have a chance to rupture, worked out in the first major trial testing this provocative idea.

This is a summary of a preprint research study written by authors from Chiba University, Japan, on Research Square, provided to you by Medscape. This study has not yet been peer reviewed. Visit ...

As you may be aware, the heart’s arteries are not rigid pipes; they’re living structures that twist, flex, constrict, expand, and remodel themselves with every beat. Traditional stents, however, don’t ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elixir Medical, a developer of disruptive technologies to treat cardiovascular disease, today announced late-breaking data demonstrating significant benefit of the DynamX ...

PARIS, France—It’s not a stent in a traditional sense, nor a scaffold that completely disappears over time, but a new device—one that “unchains” itself over time—has cleared an early hurdle by proving ...

Researchers used photoacoustic microscopy to image stents through skin. They were able to visualize stents with fractures and compression and other clinical scenarios such as overlapped stents or ...