"There is little doubt that in combination with a controlled drug-eluting design and a reabsorbable polymer, the use of an absorbable stent will likely become a valuable tool in the future." Coronary ...

Next-generation vascular stents can make cardiovascular therapies minimally invasive and vascular treatments safe and less ...

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Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...

Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital discovered that blockages in the right coronary artery and those in bending areas of the coronary artery are the most common places for dissection ...

Bioresorbable scaffolds are potentially useful for treating the rare patients with ACS caused by spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), according to a case report summarizing results for three ...

These types are called coronary stents. Usually made of metal mesh, they’re put into arteries after a procedure to expand the artery called a percutaneous coronary intervention or, its more common ...

A 34-year-old woman presented to the hospital after calling the emergency medical service (EMS) due to prolonged constrictive pain in her chest, which had come on suddenly at home. Records showed that ...

Background A 34-year-old postpartum woman presented at hospital with chest pain. She had experienced an uneventful delivery of a healthy infant and had no known coronary risk factors.