Purpose: The mechanism of action and pharmacokinetics of sirolimus when used as part of a drug-eluting stent (DES) and the efficacy and cost of using DESs versus bare-metal stents are discussed.

A statistical brief released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows cardiac stent implantation in 2009 accounted for 644,240 hospital stays, amounting to nearly $12 billion nationally ...

New research could change standard-of-care guidelines to improve outcomes for heart attack patients after coronary stenting procedures. Withdrawing aspirin one month after percutaneous coronary ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with coronary artery disease. My latest calcium score was 801. My right coronary artery was 80% blocked, and the left artery was 25%. My cardiologist ...

January 8, 2026 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the following: ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — A new study, and the bold doctor who led it, could result in big questions about how researchers study medical devices and surgical treatments and, eventually, what procedures patients ...

Routine use of an orbital atherectomy device to remove calcium from severely blocked coronary arteries before patients undergo cardiac stenting procedures does not improve outcomes, a Mount Sinai-led ...

More than a fifth of all coronary stents given to Medicare patients at hospitals nationwide from 2019 to 2021 are medically unnecessary, driving more than $2.4 billion in unnecessary program spending ...

Short-term elective angioplasty and stenting is similarly safe at experienced surgical centers, whether or not they have onsite cardiac surgery backup, according to a MedPage Today report. Six-week ...

Cardiovascular disease remains one of India’s most pressing health burdens, responsible for nearly one in three deaths ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with coronary artery disease. My latest calcium score was 801. My right coronary artery was 80% blocked, and the left artery was 25%. My cardiologist ...