of thousands of people who would benefit from this procedure.' The value of stents has been accepted throughout Europe but, while Britain lies near the top of the league of deaths from heart ...

This can be done with angioplasty (possibly including stent placement) or with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also called open-heart surgery. An angioplasty involves threading a wire to the ...

According to statistics by the American Association of Medicine, the disorder sleep apnea affects approximately 30 million US ...

A revolutionary new medical procedure gaining traction in the UAE allows patients to bypass the need for traditional heart surgery and be discharged the same day. The transcatheter aortic valve ...

The Cardiology Clinic at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo has made strides in improving heart health. In 2024 alone, over 4 coronary angiograms and heart stents were performed ... but this ...

Stent patency was graded using a 4-stage scale: No stenosis. ≤50% stenosis. >50% stenosis. Occlusion, assessed at the conclusion of the procedure and during all available follow-ups. All data were ...

But over the past few years, things haven't exactly been easy for the actress, who underwent heart surgery and lost her husband of three decades, Richard Gilliland. After her husband's sudden ...

A nurse involved in a world-first robot-assisted heart surgery has spoken about the important role her team played in the groundbreaking procedure. Clinicians at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and ...

“It’s only been in the last year or two that people have done what’s called a transseptal procedure, where basically we come up from the vein in the leg, and we start out on the right side of the ...

An apt moniker, considering 87-year-old Ram Das (name changed), a South Mumbai businessman, has 12 stents in his heart, the last one placed in a 45-minute procedure on Saturday. His surgeon says Das ...