A Children's Hospital Los Angeles team has become the first in the world to implant a cardiac stent that's designed specifically for babies and young children and can be expanded all the way to adult ...

TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Patel Children's Heart Institute at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital is the first in the southeastern United States and one of only a handful of programs ...

When patients are in the throes of a heart attack, there’s no question that stents save lives. But for heart patients with few symptoms and less than severe artery blockage, whether to use a stent is ...

Burlingame, Jan. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Market Insights has recently published a report, titled, India Coronary Stent Market, By Product Type (Drug Eluting Stents, Bare Metal Stents, ...

There is a concern that cardiac stents are overused. In fact, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2011 found that only 50 percent of stent procedures reflected in ...

A medical cardiologist with a Ph.D. in pharmacology, Dr. Jean-Sebastien Hulot specializes in using genomic technologies to provide better treatment for patients with cardiovascular disease. This is ...

Numbers released Thursday suggest that use of cardiac stents – a medical device for which sales already were depressed by safety questions – fell even further last month following a major study in ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The last time Giacomo Ciabattini walked into Saint Agnes Medical Center in Northeast Fresno, he was in a much bigger hurry. He was having a major cardiac episode on ...