A new optical imaging technique holds the potential to greatly improve angioplasty, a surgery commonly performed to treat patients with a partially or completely blocked coronary artery that restricts ...

JAIPUR: City doctors put a 72-year-old heart patient having blockages in all three arteries with poor condition of lungs on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for conducting rotablator ...

Los Gatos, CA - New data emerging from the PVD-CHILL registry evaluating restenosis rates in people with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) treated with a cold balloon angioplasty technique suggest ...

An easily implementable technique to avoid reblockage of arteries that have been cleared through angioplasty and stent insertion has been developed by researchers. Angioplasty is the "gold-standard" ...

September 18, 2006 -- A prospective study suggests renal artery stenting using techniques similar to those used in coronary artery stenting can be done with high procedural success and good clinical ...

A 40-year-old patient with a completely blocked blood vessel of the heart was operated upon at a city hospital using the retrograde angioplasty technique. PUNE: A 40-year-old patient with a completely ...

Various Angioplasty techniques like Rotablation and Intra Vascular Lithotripsy had reduced the need of Bypass surgery in calcium deposited and hard coronary artery blocks. (Image Credits: Pixabay) ...

Background: The role of immediate transfer for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after thrombolysis for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction remains controversial. We performed a ...

Furthermore, rapid adoption of sophisticated technologies in the angioplasty segment, including as drug-eluting and cutting balloons, is expected to boost market expansion throughout the forecast ...

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A new optical imaging technique that could improve angioplasty has been developed in the USA. The technique is described in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, which is published by the ...