The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

A stent designed specifically for infants and young children with congenital heart disease has demonstrated strong safety and ...

Each year, nearly a million Americans undergo implantation of heart stents. These tiny, wiry tubes of woven metal help prop open the coronary arteries, which supply the heart muscle with blood. Though ...

CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Research being conducted here in the Bay Area could provide a major advance for heart patients. Surgeons at John Muir Medical Center in Concord are implanting patients with a ...

Two of the company’s aortic stents have displayed potential to improve patient outcomes post-surgery.

Some patients with chest pain from reduced blood flow to the heart may benefit from having a stent implanted, instead of chest pain medications. These are the findings of a study, led by researchers ...

A News 9 viewer who recently received a heart stent says they are feeling hot, dizzy and faint, but their heart monitor shows nothing out of the ordinary. Dr. Lacy Anderson explains what else could be ...

CHICAGO, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents may be far more prone to breaking than expected and may cause blood clots and scar tissue formation in some patients, U.S.