The plaque can also cause ablood clotthat blocksbloodflowing to yourheart, which may lead to aheart attack. By keeping an artery open, stents lower your risk ofchest pain. They can also treat aheart attackthat's in progress. How Does Your Doctor Put In a Stent? To put a stent in, ...
These conflicting requirements are manifested most acutely in the management of patients with neurovascular disease. Case description The patient was a 51-year-old female with a past medical history of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, and undifferentiated autoimmune disease with interstitial lung ...
Intravascular Stents in the Last and the Next 10 Years In the superficial femoral artery, for example, mechanical stresses that cause fractures and dislocations may be addressed by using a very flexible ... JC Palmaz - 《Journal of Endovascular Therapy》 被引量: 3发表: 2016年 Peroneal Artery ...
Sign in to download hi-res image Fig. 25.Schematic diagram illustrating the process of opening a clogged artery, ① a catheter is inserted through an artery in the groin and passed into the heart where a dye is released to identify blockages, ② a balloon inside the stent is introduced in...
Giant aneurysm of the left main coronary artery in Takayasu aortitis Takayasu aortitis is a chronic inflammatory vasculitis characterised by stenosis or obliteration of large and medium sized arteries. Although coronary arte... H Suzuki,H Daida,M Tanaka,... - 《Heart Official Journal of the Briti...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the safety and efficacy of endoluminal vessel reconstruction by intracoronary stenting in patients with single or multivessel dis... E Eeckhout,J-C Stauffer,P Vogt - 《Heart》 被引量: 0发表: 1998年 Treatment of diffuse coronary artery disease with long lengths (≥30 ...
The need for subsequent revascularization in fractured stents has been reported to range from 15% to 60% in these relatively small studies (47, 48, 49). Right coronary artery lesions, excessive tortuosity, angulation and torsion of the vessel, overlapping stents, longer stents, and SES (owing ...
The stent (1) is brought to the desired position, for example a stenosed area of an artery, with the aid of a heatable balloon catheter. At the position to be treated, the stent (1) is heated and is expanded in the plastic state by dilatation of the balloon (3). After cooling to ...
Coronary artery stents have become the medical device of choice for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Since their introduction in 1987, significant advances in stent technology have taken place. A major objective of these developments was the reduction of in-stent restenosis, the formation of...
A comparison between coronary artery bypass grafting surgery and drug eluting stent for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery disease in e... In this study, we compared the clinical outcomes of elderly patients with unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) stenosis treated ...