Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(1):93-100. One of the more common scenarios that present a challenge for cardiac surgeons when evaluating therapy options includes: the diffuse triple vessel disease patient ...

Minimally invasive bypass surgery and coronary-artery stenting are both accepted treatments for isolated stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. We compared the clinical ...

The treatment of in-stent restenosis has been the subject of intense investigation. Intracoronary brachytherapy, the intravascular delivery of radiation, was viewed as a viable solution to inhibit ...

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of the left anterior descending artery (LAD), bivalirudin and paclitaxel-eluting ...

A 76-year-old man who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery in 1987 had 2 saphenous vein grafts to the mid-left anterior descending and marginal branch of circumflex coronary arteries. PCI with ...

These types are called coronary stents. Usually made of metal mesh, they’re put into arteries after a procedure to expand the artery called a percutaneous coronary intervention or, its more common ...

Sirolimus analogues act through the same pathway as sirolimus. The restenosis casade that is initiated after stent implantation is shown in red. The mechanism of action of sirolimus (and analogues) is ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A53-year-old male presented with chest pain at a pre-hospital care provider, and an ECG showed an anterior MI.