Dr. Robert Hallett, cardiovascular interventionist, performed the first implantation of the new Endeavor stent in East Texas. The FDA approved this next generation drug-eluting stent a month and a ...

Jerry Bailey was awake while a medical team at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital reopened one of his previously stented arteries using a new heart procedure. "It's working," the 73-year-old said a few ...

To clear a blockage in the heart, doctors routinely use angioplasty. It is a safe procedure that has been used for years, but doctors are approaching the technique in a new way that may be even safer.

A new drug-eluting balloon can perform just as well as the standard treatment for patients with coronary in-stent restenosis ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush’s decision to allow doctors to use a stent to clear a blocked heart artery, performed absent symptoms, is reopening a national debate on the best way to ...

CHICAGO — Patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease who underwent a less-invasive stent procedure fared just as well as those who underwent open-heart bypass surgery after 5 years, the FAME 3 ...

The neurosurgeons say this marks a paradigm shift in how complex neurovascular interventions can safely be delivered.

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 ...

UB neurosurgeon Elad Levy says the case proves complex endovascular procedures can be performed in outpatient neurosurgery ...