Cardiovascular specialists have demonstrated the effectiveness of using stents -- as compared to traditional open-chest surgery -- to repair aortas that are torn as the result of accidents. A UC Davis ...

Prior to the March 2016 FDA approval of a game-changing piece of vascular stent technology, a patient with a large iliac artery aneurysm would have been cut open from their sternum to the pelvis, ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an exosome-coated stent with a "smart-release" trigger that could both prevent reopened blood vessels from narrowing and deliver ...

The FDA has granted pre-market approval for two stent grafts, made by Bolton Medical and TriVascular, designed to repair aneurysms in the aorta without resorting to invasive surgery. Bolton's Relay ...

Medtronic ($MDT) touted four-year global registry data that's supportive of its Endurant stent graft system for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, which ...

Angioplasty, a surgical procedure that opens blocked arteries, often involves placing a metal tube to hold arterial walls open and prevent them from collapsing once the arterial block is surgically ...

People with type 2 diabetes experience a series of setbacks that put them at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Often a surgery to insert a stent can relieve the strain of a blocked artery, ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A UC Davis team of cardiovascular specialists has demonstrated the effectiveness of using stents -- as compared to traditional open-chest surgery -- to repair aortas that are ...

Peripheral arterial disease is a common circulation problem in which reduced blood flow can lead to complications that jeopardize the limbs, possibly even requiring amputation. Procedures known as ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an exosome-coated stent with a "smart-release" trigger that could both prevent reopened blood vessels from narrowing and deliver ...