Peripheral artery angioplasty is a procedure to treat peripheral arterial disease of the legs. The procedure widens narrowed arteries in the pelvis or legs. It can help blood flow better. This may ...

Angioplasty of the legs, also known as peripheral angioplasty or percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), is a minimally invasive procedure commonly performed by vascular surgeons to treat ...

Doctors Sound an Alarm Over Leg-Stent Surgery Johns Hopkins researchers analyzing Medicare data say they’ve detected physicians performing what look like unnecessary vascular procedures By ...

Peripheral artery disease occurs when plaque or other deposits build up on the walls of blood vessels, often in the legs, and restrict blood flow. Smoking, high cholesterol and diabetes can ...

New Johns Hopkins research suggests that people who undergo minimally invasive placement of stents to open clogged leg arteries are significantly less likely than those who have conventional bypass ...

A normal stent -- a wire mesh tube used to prop open an artery -- was placed in an artery in 41 participants, and 62 were given drug-eluting stents, which were stents coated with sirolimus, an ...

The Cook Medical stent is coated with paclitaxel, an anti-cancer drug. The drug is used to help prevent reclogging of the artery by inhibiting the growth of scar tissue.

WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first clinical trial of a stent to treat below-the-knee artery blockages. The study, which is sponsored by VIVA ...

Angioplasty is used to unblock or widen blood vessels that are too narrow. It is a minimally invasive procedure, meaning small cuts are made to reach the affected vein or artery.

Dr. Christopher Stout, a vascular surgeon at Mercy, is one of the first doctors in the country to perform a new type of artery-blockage surgery in the leg by entering the patient's wrist with a ...

Peripheral artery disease occurs when plaque or other deposits build up on the walls of blood vessels, often in the legs, and restrict blood flow. Smoking, high cholesterol and diabetes can ...