Vascular surgeons at Doylestown Hospital have pioneered a dissolvable stent that holds clogged arteries open long enough to ...

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 ...

Over 3,500 major leg amputations were performed by vascular surgeons in the UK in 2023. Peripheral artery disease is the leading cause of amputations nowadays. Narrowings and blockages in the leg ...

Although immediate failure rates decrease with 'bail-out' or 'primary' stenting with BMS, neointimal hyperplasia can lead to late target-lesion restenosis. DESs that were being placed in the ...

The recently approved device simplifies operator manipulations by loading a balloon and filter onto the stent.

The leg pain goes away when I rest ... A tiny balloon is inflated to widen the blocked artery and improve blood flow. A stent, a small wire mesh tube, may also be placed in the artery to keep ...

Several balloon-expandable stents have been used in the iliac artery, however, they have not had a primary indication for iliac stenting. The Express® LD iliac premounted stent system (Boston ...

In conventional cardiovascular surgery involving balloons or stents, the surgeon punctures an artery and delivers a slender, flexible guidewire, which is used to guide the balloon or stent along ...

Over 3,500 major leg amputations were performed by vascular surgeons in the UK in 2023. Peripheral artery disease is the leading cause of amputations nowadays. Narrowings and blockages in the leg ...