Each year, about 250,000 Americans undergo sleeve gastrectomy, one of the most common weight-loss operations in the United ...

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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 – A new drug-eluting stent design demonstrated superiority over a traditional drug-eluting stent at 6 months, according to a study led by Laura Mauri, MD, Associate ...

A new drug-eluting stent design demonstrated superiority over a traditional drug-eluting stent at 6 months, according to a new study. A new drug-eluting stent design demonstrated superiority over a ...

Using computer models to study the strengths and weaknesses of different stent structures could help manufacturers optimize stent design and help doctors choose the right stents for their patients.

In the quest for increasingly thinner, smaller, and more-flexible stents, medical device designers may have compromised structural integrity in some current-generation drug-eluting stents (DES). And ...

Drug-eluting stents are small, wire scaffolds that are inserted into coronary arteries that have become narrow due to the development of atherosclerosis. The stent helps to hold the artery open and ...

When the first drug-eluting stents were implanted in 1999, researchers and clinical cardiologists welcomed this groundbreaking innovation. In this platform, stents that elute either a cytotoxic ...

Drug-eluting stents (DES) have revolutionized the practice of interventional cardiology over the past decade. Although their efficacy has never been called into question, concerns have been raised ...

Suncica "Sunny" Canic was good at math in school, so that's what she pursued as a career. But she always liked medicine, too. When she moved to Houston, Texas, and met some cardiologists at a party, ...