As February closes out American Heart Month, patients and doctors gathered at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside for a heart ...

Sanford Aberdeen (S.D.) Medical Center recently performed the first robot-assisted angioplasty for an acute heart attack patient and achieved a door-to-balloon time far below the national average. The ...

Twenty-four weeks into her pregnancy, Serena Chen and her husband received unexpected news: a fetal echocardiogram revealed that their daughter, Chloe, would be born with a congenial heart defect that ...

Former President George W. Bush was hospitalized on Tuesday to treat a blocked artery in his heart. Doctors discovered the blockage during Bush’s routine physical, and recommended a stent to keep the ...

Stents restore blood flow by keeping arteries open with a metal scaffold tube. Dr. Wiley emphasized multiple stents over time are common and not alarming. Stents rarely impact lifestyle; risk ...

A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other coronary arteries also appear to be narrowed, it is safe to wait and treat ...

Manish Doshi’s company developed MagicTouch, the world's first sirolimus-coated balloon, which offers an implant-free solution for coronary artery disease and is now used in over 80 countries ...

A new study conducted by researchers at the Imperial College London suggests that the placebo effect experienced by patients who receive coronary artery stents might be larger than expected, even ...